default.pa(5) File Formats Manual default.pa(5)
NAME
default.pa - PulseAudio Sound Server Startup Script
SYNOPSIS
~/.config/pulse/default.pa
/etc/pulse/default.pa
/etc/pulse/system.pa
DESCRIPTION
The PulseAudio sound server interprets a configuration script on
startup, which is mainly used to define the set of modules to load.
When PulseAudio runs in the per-user mode and ~/.config/pulse/de-
fault.pa exists, that file is used. When PulseAudio runs in the per-
user mode and that file doesn't exist, /etc/pulse/default.pa is used.
When PulseAudio runs as a system service, /etc/pulse/system.pa is used.
The script should contain directives in the PulseAudio CLI language, as
documented in pulse-cli-syntax(5).
AUTHORS
The PulseAudio Developers <pulseaudio-discuss (at) lists (dot)
freedesktop (dot) org>; PulseAudio is available from http://pulseau-
dio.org/
SEE ALSO
pulse-cli-syntax(5), pulse-daemon.conf(5), pulseaudio(1), pacmd(1)
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