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| author | Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk@iki.fi> | 2015-12-04 07:38:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk@iki.fi> | 2015-12-04 08:00:21 +0200 |
| commit | 8203423bdc8ce4bced0013817e8b864c6f3cd4d0 (patch) | |
| tree | e0a8b18ce47029eb6b2ab2c34585bf3f4bb91dab /man | |
| parent | cd46a4ef06a5805886691b671b036c95fa0419ac (diff) | |
man: document when system.pa is used instead of default.pa
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/default.pa.5.xml.in | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man/default.pa.5.xml.in b/man/default.pa.5.xml.in index 306e9767f..d999fb0a2 100644 --- a/man/default.pa.5.xml.in +++ b/man/default.pa.5.xml.in @@ -23,15 +23,21 @@ License along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. <synopsis> <p><file>~/.config/pulse/default.pa</file></p> - <p><file>@PA_DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/default.pa</file></p> + <p><file>@PA_DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/system.pa</file></p> </synopsis> <description> - <p>The PulseAudio sound server interprets the file - <file>~/.config/pulse/default.pa</file> on startup, and when that file - doesn't exist <file>@PA_DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/default.pa</file>. It - should contain directives in the PulseAudio CLI language, as + <p>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 + <file>~/.config/pulse/default.pa</file> exists, that file is used. When + PulseAudio runs in the per-user mode and that file doesn't exist, + <file>@PA_DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/default.pa</file> is used. When PulseAudio + runs as a system service, <file>@PA_DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/system.pa</file> is + used.</p> + + <p>The script should contain directives in the PulseAudio CLI language, as documented in <manref name="pulse-cli-syntax" section="5"/>.</p> <p>The same commands can also be entered during runtime in the <manref name="pacmd" |