On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:10:47 +0100 Mark Knoop <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 14:49 on 27 Aug 2009, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:12:39 +0930 > > Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 10:12 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > > > I'd like to know where (which file) the information is > > > > stored in and what program starts it. gdm? gnome? gconf? > > > > > > A hint for finding out things like that: Change a setting, and > > > search for a very recently changed file. > > > > > Interesting. > > I had already found a directory called ~/.config/autostart but > > there was no hint of anything pulseaudio related in there. Then I > > followed your suggestion and disabled its autostart and searched for > > recently changed files. Now there is a file called > > ~/.config/pulseaudio.desktop. That is backward to what I would have > > expected and if I enable pulseaudio again, the file is removed. > > Come on, it's not exactly rocket-science. Well, I'm not exactly a rocket scientist. > Perhaps you could start by reading what you've posted: > > > The pulseaudio.desktop file contains this: > > > > [Desktop Entry] > <snip> > > X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false Even mere non-rocket-scientist-mortals like me can read. It's not the fact that there is a line disabling autostart that puzzled me, it was the fact that the file was removed altogether when PA did get autostarted so then what caused start-pulseaudio-x11 to be run? > Look also in /etc/xdg/autostart/ and at > http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html > This provides the answer. "If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS are not set and the two files /etc/xdg/autostart/foo.desktop and ~/.config/autostart/foo.desktop exist then only the file ~/.config/autostart/foo.desktop will be used because ~/.config/autostart/ is more important than /etc/xdg/autostart/" So when ~/.config/pulseaudio.desktop is removed, /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop is used instead and this file contains the start-pulseaudio-x11. Do you have any links to more information about autostart? For instance, how does it interact with GDM? Thanks, Steve -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines