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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY pulseaudio-download-http "http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/pulseaudio-&pulseaudio-version;.tar.xz">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY pulseaudio-download-ftp " ">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY pulseaudio-md5sum "17d21df798cee407b769c6355fae397a">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY pulseaudio-size "1.2 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY pulseaudio-buildsize "75 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY pulseaudio-time "1.0 SBU">
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| 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <sect1 id="pulseaudio" xreflabel="PulseAudio-&pulseaudio-version;">
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| 16 | <?dbhtml filename="pulseaudio.html"?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>PulseAudio-&pulseaudio-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-PulseAudio">PulseAudio</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to PulseAudio</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>The <application>PulseAudio</application> package is a sound system
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| 33 | for POSIX OSes, meaning that it is a proxy for your sound applications. It
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| 34 | allows you to do advanced operations on your sound data as it passes between
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| 35 | your application and your hardware. Things like transferring the audio to a
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| 36 | different machine, changing the sample format or channel count and mixing
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| 37 | several sounds into one are easily achieved using a sound server.</para>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | &lfs70_checked;
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 42 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 43 | <listitem>
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| 44 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&pulseaudio-download-http;"/></para>
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| 45 | </listitem>
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| 46 | <listitem>
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| 47 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&pulseaudio-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &pulseaudio-md5sum;</para>
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| 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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| 53 | <para>Download size: &pulseaudio-size;</para>
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| 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | <listitem>
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| 56 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &pulseaudio-buildsize;</para>
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| 57 | </listitem>
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| 58 | <listitem>
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| 59 | <para>Estimated build time: &pulseaudio-time;</para>
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| 60 | </listitem>
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| 61 | </itemizedlist>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">PulseAudio Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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| 66 | <para role="required"><xref linkend="intltool"/>,
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| 67 | <xref linkend="json-c"/>,
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| 68 | <xref linkend="libsndfile"/>,
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| 69 | <xref linkend="pkgconfig"/> and <!-- required to pick up json-c and libsndfile -->
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| 70 | <xref linkend="speex"/></para>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 73 | <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="dbus"/></para>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended (If you are going to use it
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| 76 | with GNOME)</bridgehead>
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| 77 | <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
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| 78 | <xref linkend="GConf"/> and <xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/>
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| 79 | </para>
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| 80 |
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| 81 | <!-- pkgconfig (needed to find libsndfile) pulls in glib -->
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| 82 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 83 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="avahi"/>,
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| 84 | <ulink url="http://www.bluez.org/">BlueZ</ulink>,
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| 85 | <ulink url="http://www.fftw.org/">FFTW</ulink>,
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| 86 | <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
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| 87 | <ulink url="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/">JACK</ulink>,
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| 88 | <ulink url="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libasyncns/">
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| 89 | libasyncns</ulink>,
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| 90 | <ulink url="http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsamplerate/">Secret Rabbit
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| 91 | Code</ulink> (a.k.a. libsamplerate),
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| 92 | <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/">LIRC</ulink>,
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| 93 | <xref linkend="openssl"/>,
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| 94 | <ulink url="http://code.entropywave.com/projects/orc/">ORC</ulink>,
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| 95 | <ulink url="http://tdb.samba.org/">tdb</ulink> and
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| 96 | <ulink url="http://valgrind.org/">Valgrind</ulink></para>
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| 97 |
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| 98 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 99 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/pulseaudio"/></para>
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| 100 |
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| 101 | </sect2>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 104 | <title>Installation of PulseAudio</title>
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| 105 |
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| 106 | <para>Install <application>PulseAudio</application> by running the following
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| 107 | commands:</para>
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| 108 |
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| 109 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 110 | --sysconfdir=/etc \
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| 111 | --localstatedir=/var \
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| 112 | --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
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| 113 | --with-module-dir=/usr/lib/pulse/modules &&
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| 114 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 115 |
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| 116 | <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 119 |
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| 120 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 121 |
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| 122 | </sect2>
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| 123 |
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| 124 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 125 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 126 |
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| 127 | <para><parameter>--libexecdir=/usr/lib</parameter>: This
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| 128 | parameter ensures that internal <application>PulseAudio</application>
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| 129 | helpers are installed in <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/pulse
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| 130 | </filename> instead of <filename class="directory">/usr/libexec/pulse
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| 131 | </filename>.</para>
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| 132 |
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| 133 | <para><parameter>---with-module-dir=/usr/lib/pulse/modules</parameter>:
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| 134 | This parameter ensures that <application>PulseAudio</application>
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| 135 | modules are installed in <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/pulse/modules
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| 136 | </filename> instead of <filename class="directory">
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| 137 | /usr/lib/pulse-&pulseaudio-version;/modules</filename>.</para>
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| 138 |
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| 139 | </sect2>
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| 140 |
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| 141 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 142 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 143 |
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| 144 | <segmentedlist>
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| 145 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 146 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 147 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 148 |
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| 149 | <seglistitem>
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| 150 | <seg>esdcompat, gconf-helper, pabrowse, pacat, pacmd, pactl, padsp,
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| 151 | pamon, paplay, parec, parecord, pasuspender, pax11publish, proximity-helper,
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| 152 | pulseaudio, qpaeq, start-pulseaudio-kde and start-pulseaudio-x11</seg>
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| 153 | <seg>libalsa-util.so, libavahi-wrap.so, libcli.so, liboss-util.so,
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| 154 | libprotocol-cli.so, libprotocol-esound.so, libprotocol-http.so,
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| 155 | libprotocol-native.so, libprotocol-simple.so,libpulse-mainloop-glib.so,
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| 156 | libpulse-simple.so, libpulse.so, libpulsecommon-1.1.so, libpulsecore-1.1.so,
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| 157 | libpulsedsp.so, libraop.so, librtp.so, module-alsa-card.so,
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| 158 | module-alsa-sink.so, module-alsa-source.so, module-always-sink.so,
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| 159 | module-augment-properties.so, module-card-restore.so,
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| 160 | module-cli-protocol-tcp.so, module-cli-protocol-unix.so, module-cli.so,
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| 161 | module-combine.so, module-console-kit.so, module-cork-music-on-phone.so,
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| 162 | module-default-device-restore.so, module-detect.so,
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| 163 | module-device-manager.so, module-device-restore.so,
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| 164 | module-echo-cancel.so, module-esound-compat-spawnfd.so,
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| 165 | module-esound-compat-spawnpid.so, module-esound-protocol-tcp.so,
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| 166 | module-esound-protocol-unix.so, module-esound-sink.so, module-gconf.so,
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| 167 | module-hal-detect.so, module-http-protocol-tcp.so,
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| 168 | module-http-protocol-unix.so, module-intended-roles.so,
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| 169 | module-ladspa-sink.so, module-loopback.so, module-match.so,
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| 170 | module-mmkbd-evdev.so, module-native-protocol-fd.so,
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| 171 | module-native-protocol-tcp.so, module-native-protocol-unix.so,
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| 172 | module-null-sink.so, module-oss.so, module-pipe-sink.so,
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| 173 | module-pipe-source.so, module-position-event-sounds.so,
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| 174 | module-raop-discover.so, module-raop-sink.so, module-remap-sink.so,
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| 175 | module-rescue-streams.so, module-rtp-recv.so, module-rtp-send.so,
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| 176 | module-rygel-media-server.so, module-simple-protocol-tcp.so,
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| 177 | module-simple-protocol-unix.so, module-sine-source.so, module-sine.so,
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| 178 | module-stream-restore.so, module-suspend-on-idle.so,
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| 179 | module-tunnel-sink.so, module-tunnel-source.so, module-udev-detect.so,
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| 180 | module-volume-restore.so, module-x11-bell.so,
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| 181 | module-x11-cork-request.so, module-x11-publish.so, module-x11-xsmp.so,
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| 182 | module-zeroconf-discover.so, and module-zeroconf-publish.so</seg>
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| 183 | <seg>/etc/{pulse,xdg/autostart}, /usr/{include/pulse,
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| 184 | lib/pulse/modules,share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/{paths,profile-sets}}</seg>
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| 185 | </seglistitem>
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| 186 | </segmentedlist>
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| 187 |
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| 188 | <variablelist>
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| 189 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 190 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 191 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 192 |
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| 193 | <varlistentry id="esdcompat">
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| 194 | <term><command>esdcompat</command></term>
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| 195 | <listitem>
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| 196 | <para>is a <application>PulseAudio</application> ESD wrapper
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| 197 | script.</para>
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| 198 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio esdcompat">
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| 199 | <primary sortas="b-esdcompat">esdcompat</primary>
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| 200 | </indexterm>
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| 201 | </listitem>
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| 202 | </varlistentry>
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| 203 |
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| 204 | <varlistentry id="gconf-helper">
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| 205 | <term><command>gconf-helper</command></term>
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| 206 | <listitem>
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| 207 | <para>is helper for <application>PulseAudio
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| 208 | </application> GConf module.</para>
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| 209 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio gconf-helper">
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| 210 | <primary sortas="b-gconf-helper">gconf-helper</primary>
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| 211 | </indexterm>
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| 212 | </listitem>
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| 213 | </varlistentry>
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| 214 |
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| 215 | <varlistentry id="pacat">
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| 216 | <term><command>pacat</command></term>
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| 217 | <listitem>
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| 218 | <para>Plays back or records raw or encoded audio streams on a
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| 219 | <application>PulseAudio</application> sound server.</para>
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| 220 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pacat">
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| 221 | <primary sortas="b-pacat">pacat</primary>
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| 222 | </indexterm>
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| 223 | </listitem>
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| 224 | </varlistentry>
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| 225 |
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| 226 | <varlistentry id="pacmd">
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| 227 | <term><command>pacmd</command></term>
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| 228 | <listitem>
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| 229 | <para>is a tool to reconfigure a <application>PulseAudio</application>
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| 230 | sound server during runtime.</para>
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| 231 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pacmd">
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| 232 | <primary sortas="b-pacmd">pacmd</primary>
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| 233 | </indexterm>
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| 234 | </listitem>
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| 235 | </varlistentry>
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| 236 |
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| 237 | <varlistentry id="pactl">
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| 238 | <term><command>pactl</command></term>
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| 239 | <listitem>
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| 240 | <para>controls a running <application>PulseAudio</application> sound
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| 241 | server.</para>
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| 242 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pactl">
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| 243 | <primary sortas="b-pactl">pactl</primary>
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| 244 | </indexterm>
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| 245 | </listitem>
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| 246 | </varlistentry>
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| 247 |
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| 248 | <varlistentry id="padsp">
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| 249 | <term><command>padsp</command></term>
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| 250 | <listitem>
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| 251 | <para>is a <application>PulseAudio</application> OSS Wrapper.</para>
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| 252 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio padsp">
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| 253 | <primary sortas="b-padsp">padsp</primary>
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| 254 | </indexterm>
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| 255 | </listitem>
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| 256 | </varlistentry>
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| 257 |
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| 258 | <varlistentry id="pamon">
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| 259 | <term><command>pamon</command></term>
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| 260 | <listitem>
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| 261 | <para>is a symbolic link to pacat.</para>
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| 262 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pamon">
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| 263 | <primary sortas="b-pamon">pamon</primary>
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| 264 | </indexterm>
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| 265 | </listitem>
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| 266 | </varlistentry>
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| 267 |
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| 268 | <varlistentry id="paplay">
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| 269 | <term><command>paplay</command></term>
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| 270 | <listitem>
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| 271 | <para>plays audio files on <application>PulseAudio</application>
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| 272 | sound server.</para>
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| 273 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio paplay">
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| 274 | <primary sortas="b-paplay">paplay</primary>
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| 275 | </indexterm>
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| 276 | </listitem>
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| 277 | </varlistentry>
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| 278 |
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| 279 | <varlistentry id="parec">
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| 280 | <term><command>parec</command></term>
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| 281 | <listitem>
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| 282 | <para>is a symbolic link to pacat.</para>
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| 283 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio parec">
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| 284 | <primary sortas="b-parec">parec</primary>
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| 285 | </indexterm>
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| 286 | </listitem>
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| 287 | </varlistentry>
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| 288 |
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| 289 | <varlistentry id="parecord">
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| 290 | <term><command>parecord</command></term>
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| 291 | <listitem>
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| 292 | <para>is a symbolic link to pacat.</para>
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| 293 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio parecord">
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| 294 | <primary sortas="b-parecord">parecord</primary>
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| 295 | </indexterm>
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| 296 | </listitem>
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| 297 | </varlistentry>
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| 298 |
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| 299 | <varlistentry id="pasuspender">
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| 300 | <term><command>pasuspender</command></term>
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| 301 | <listitem>
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| 302 | <para>is a tool that can be used to tell a local
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| 303 | <application>PulseAudio</application> sound server to temporarily
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| 304 | suspend access to the audio devices, to allow other applications
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| 305 | access them directly.</para>
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| 306 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pasuspender">
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| 307 | <primary sortas="b-pasuspender">pasuspender</primary>
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| 308 | </indexterm>
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| 309 | </listitem>
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| 310 | </varlistentry>
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| 311 |
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| 312 | <varlistentry id="pax11publish">
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| 313 | <term><command>pax11publish</command></term>
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| 314 | <listitem>
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| 315 | <para>is <application>PulseAudio</application>
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| 316 | X11 Credential Utility.</para>
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| 317 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pax11publish">
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| 318 | <primary sortas="b-pax11publish">pax11publish</primary>
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| 319 | </indexterm>
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| 320 | </listitem>
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| 321 | </varlistentry>
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| 322 |
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| 323 | <varlistentry id="pulseaudio-prog">
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| 324 | <term><command>pulseaudio</command></term>
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| 325 | <listitem>
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| 326 | <para>is a networked low-latency sound server for Linux.</para>
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| 327 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio pulseaudio-prog">
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| 328 | <primary sortas="b-pulseaudio-prog">pulseaudio-prog</primary>
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| 329 | </indexterm>
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| 330 | </listitem>
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| 331 | </varlistentry>
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| 332 |
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| 333 | <varlistentry id="qpaeq">
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| 334 | <term><command>qpaeq</command></term>
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| 335 | <listitem>
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| 336 | <para>is a equalizer interface for
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| 337 | <application>PulseAudio</application> equalizer sinks.</para>
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| 338 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio qpaeq">
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| 339 | <primary sortas="b-qpaeq">qpaeq</primary>
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| 340 | </indexterm>
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| 341 | </listitem>
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| 342 | </varlistentry>
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| 343 |
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| 344 | <varlistentry id="start-pulseaudio-kde">
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| 345 | <term><command>start-pulseaudio-kde</command></term>
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| 346 | <listitem>
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| 347 | <para>Starts <application>PulseAudio</application> and registers it to
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| 348 | the X11 session manager.</para>
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| 349 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio start-pulseaudio-kde">
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| 350 | <primary sortas="b-start-pulseaudio-kde">start-pulseaudio-kde</primary>
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| 351 | </indexterm>
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| 352 | </listitem>
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| 353 | </varlistentry>
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| 354 |
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| 355 | <varlistentry id="start-pulseaudio-x11">
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| 356 | <term><command>start-pulseaudio-x11</command></term>
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| 357 | <listitem>
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| 358 | <para>Starts <application>PulseAudio</application> and loads
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| 359 | module-device-manager to use KDE routing policies.</para>
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| 360 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio start-pulseaudio-x11">
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| 361 | <primary sortas="b-start-pulseaudio-x11">start-pulseaudio-x11</primary>
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| 362 | </indexterm>
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| 363 | </listitem>
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| 364 | </varlistentry>
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| 365 |
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| 366 | <varlistentry id="modules">
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| 367 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>module-*.so</filename></term>
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| 368 | <listitem>
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| 369 | <para>Various library modules.</para>
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| 370 | <indexterm zone="pulseaudio modules">
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| 371 | <primary sortas="c-modules">module-*.so</primary>
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| 372 | </indexterm>
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| 373 | </listitem>
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| 374 | </varlistentry>
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| 375 |
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| 376 | </variablelist>
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| 377 |
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| 378 | </sect2>
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| 379 |
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| 380 | </sect1>
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