NAME

       pulse-client.conf - PulseAudio client configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       ~/.config/pulse/client.conf

       ~/.config/pulse/client.conf.d/*.conf

       /etc/pulse/client.conf

       /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/*.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The PulseAudio client library reads configuration directives from a configuration file on startup. If the
       per-user  file  ~/.config/pulse/client.conf  exists,  it is used, otherwise the system configuration file
       /etc/pulse/client.conf is used. In addition to those main files, configuration directives can also be put
       in files under directories ~/.config/pulse/client.conf.d/ and /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/. Those files have
       to have the .conf file name extension, but otherwise the file names can be chosen freely. The files under
       client.conf.d are processed in alphabetical order. In case the same option is set in multiple files,  the
       last  file  to  set  an  option overrides earlier files. The main client.conf file is processed first, so
       options set in files under client.conf.d override the main file.

       The configuration file is a simple collection of variable declarations. If the configuration file  parser
       encounters either ; or # it ignores the rest of the line until its end.

       For the settings that take a boolean argument the values true, yes, on and 1 are equivalent, resp. false,
       no, off, 0.

DIRECTIVES

       default-sink= The default sink to connect to. If specified overwrites the setting in the daemon. The
       environment variable $PULSE_SINK however takes precedence.

       default-source= The default source to connect to. If specified overwrites the setting in the daemon. The
       environment variable $PULSE_SOURCE however takes precedence.

       default-server= The default server to connect to. The environment variable $PULSE_SERVER takes
       precedence.

       autospawn= Autospawn a PulseAudio daemon when needed. Takes a boolean value, defaults to yes. Note that
       setting this to "no" doesn't disable the systemd service. The autospawn option is only meant to be used
       on systems without systemd. If you use systemd to start PulseAudio, use "systemctl --user stop
       pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket" to stop the daemon temporarily, or "systemctl --user mask
       pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket" to permanently disable the units (the "disable" command of
       systemctl probably won't work, because the pulseaudio.socket unit is often installed to
       /usr/lib/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/, which makes it impossible to disable the unit with the
       "disable" command).

       daemon-binary= Path to the PulseAudio daemon to run when autospawning. Defaults to a path configured at
       compile time.

       extra-arguments= Extra arguments to pass to the PulseAudio daemon when autospawning. Defaults to --log-
       target=syslog

       cookie-file= Specify the path to the PulseAudio authentication cookie. Defaults to
       ~/.config/pulse/cookie.

       enable-shm= Enable data transfer via POSIX or memfd shared memory. Takes a boolean argument, defaults to
       yes. If set to no, communication with the server will be exclusively done through data-copy over sockets.

       enable-memfd=. Enable data transfer via memfd shared memory. Takes a boolean argument, defaults to yes.

       shm-size-bytes= Sets the shared memory segment size for clients, in bytes. If left unspecified or is set
       to 0 it will default to some system-specific default, usually 64 MiB. Please note that usually there is
       no need to change this value, unless you are running an OS kernel that does not do memory overcommit.

       auto-connect-localhost= Automatically try to connect to localhost via IP. Enabling this is a potential
       security hole since connections are only authenticated one-way and a rogue server might hence fool a
       client into sending it its private (e.g. VoIP call) data. This was enabled by default on PulseAudio
       version 0.9.21 and older. Defaults to no.

       auto-connect-display= Automatically try to connect to the host X11's $DISPLAY variable is set to. The
       same security issues apply as to auto-connect-localhost=. Defaults to no.

AUTHORS

       The  PulseAudio  Developers  <pulseaudio-discuss  (at)  lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; PulseAudio is
       available from http://pulseaudio.org/

SEE ALSO

       pulse-daemon.conf(5), pulseaudio(1)

Manuals                                               User                                  pulse-client.conf(5)