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6 This file is part of PulseAudio.
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24 <manpage name="pulse-client.conf" section="5" desc="PulseAudio client configuration file">
27 <p><file>~/.pulse/client.conf</file></p>
29 <p><file>@pulseconfdir@/client.conf</file></p>
33 <p>The PulseAudio client library reads configuration directives from
34 a file <file>~/.pulse/client.conf</file> on startup and when that
35 file doesn't exist from
36 <file>@pulseconfdir@/client.conf</file>.</p>
38 <p>The configuration file is a simple collection of variable
39 declarations. If the configuration file parser encounters either ;
40 or # it ignores the rest of the line until its end.</p>
42 <p>For the settings that take a boolean argument the values
43 <opt>true</opt>, <opt>yes</opt>, <opt>on</opt> and <opt>1</opt>
44 are equivalent, resp. <opt>false</opt>, <opt>no</opt>,
45 <opt>off</opt>, <opt>0</opt>.</p>
49 <section name="Directives">
52 <p><opt>default-sink=</opt> The default sink to connect to. If
53 specified overwrites the setting in the daemon. The environment
54 variable <opt>$PULSE_SINK</opt> however takes precedence.</p>
58 <p><opt>default-source=</opt> The default source to connect
59 to. If specified overwrites the setting in the daemon. The
60 environment variable <opt>$PULSE_SOURCE</opt> however takes
65 <p><opt>default-server=</opt> The default sever to connect
66 to. The environment variable <opt>$PULSE_SERVER</opt> takes
71 <p><opt>autospawn=</opt> Autospawn a PulseAudio daemon when
72 needed. Takes a boolean value, defaults to <opt>yes</opt>.</p>
76 <p><opt>daemon-binary=</opt> Path to the PulseAudio daemon to
77 run when autospawning. Defaults to a path configured at compile
82 <p><opt>extra-arguments=</opt> Extra arguments to pass to the
83 PulseAudio daemon when autospawning. Defaults to
84 <opt>--log-target=syslog</opt>
89 <p><opt>cookie-file=</opt> Specify the path to the PulseAudio
90 authentication cookie. Defaults to
91 <file>~/.pulse-cookie</file>.</p>
95 <p><opt>enable-shm=</opt> Enable data transfer via POSIX
96 shared memory. Takes a boolean argument, defaults to
101 <p><opt>shm-size-bytes=</opt> Sets the shared memory segment
102 size for clients, in bytes. If left unspecified or is set to 0
103 it will default to some system-specific default, usually 64
104 MiB. Please note that usually there is no need to change this
105 value, unless you are running an OS kernel that does not do
106 memory overcommit.</p>
110 <p><opt>auto-connect-localhost=</opt> Automatically try to
111 connect to localhost via IP. Enabling this is a potential
112 security hole since connections are only authenticated one-way
113 and a rogue server might hence fool a client into sending it its
114 private (e.g. VoIP call) data. This was enabled by default on
115 PulseAudio version 0.9.21 and older. Defaults to
120 <p><opt>auto-connect-display=</opt> Automatically try to connect
121 to the host X11's $DISPLAY variable is set to. The same security
122 issues apply as to <opt>auto-connect-localhost=</opt>. Defaults
123 to <opt>no</opt>.</p>
128 <section name="Authors">
129 <p>The PulseAudio Developers <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>;
130 PulseAudio is available from <url href="@PACKAGE_URL@"/></p>
133 <section name="See also">
135 <manref name="pulse-daemon.conf" section="5"/>, <manref name="pulseaudio" section="1"/>