Devuan bug report logs - #375
pulseaudio not started in xfce for regular user

Package: pulseaudio; Maintainer for pulseaudio is Dima Krasner <dima@dimakrasner.com>; Source for pulseaudio is src:pulseaudio.

Reported by: Tito <farmatito@tiscali.it>

Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:18:02 UTC

Severity: grave

Tags: beowulf, moreinfo, patch

Merged with 276, 318, 367, 378, 403, 466, 473, 480, 514, 520

Found in version 12.2-4+deb10u1

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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Package: pulseaudio
Version: 12.2-4+deb10u1

Incorrect behavior: the .desktop file installed in
/etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop does not work correctly
for a regular user and pulseaudio is not started in xfce DE.
The .desktop file does start pulseaudio for the root user.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=PulseAudio Sound System

omissis

Exec=start-pulseaudio-x11
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=
GenericName=
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization
X-KDE-autostart-phase=1

Partial fix:
changing Exec line to Exec=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
works for regular users but not for the  root user.

Calling a wrapper script like:

#!/bin/sh
if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ] ; then
	start-pulseaudio-x11
else
	pulseaudio --start
fi

maybe could work for all users but i did not test it
and probably there is a more orthodox solution.

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Devuan bug report logs - #375 pulseaudio not started in xfce for regular user

Devuan bug report logs - #375
pulseaudio not started in xfce for regular user