NAME

       pax11publish - PulseAudio X11 Credential Utility

SYNOPSIS

       pax11publish -h

       pax11publish [options] [-d]

       pax11publish [options] -e

       pax11publish [options] -i

       pax11publish [options] -r

DESCRIPTION

       The  pax11publish utility can be used to dump or manipulate the PulseAudio server credentials that can be
       stored as properties on the X11 root window.

       Please note that the loadable module module-x11-publish exports the same information  directly  from  the
       PulseAudio sound server, and should in most cases be used in preference over this tool.

       Use  the  following  command  to  dump  the  raw PulseAudio-specific data that is stored in your X11 root
       window:

       xprop -root | grep ^PULSE_

OPTIONS

       -h     Show help.

       -d     Read the PulseAudio server credentials currently set on the X11 root window and  dump  them  in  a
              human  readable  form.  This  reads  the  PULSE_SERVER,  PULSE_SINK, PULSE_SOURCE and PULSE_COOKIE
              properties.

       -i     Similar to -d, however dumps them in a Bourne shell compatible format so they may be used together
              with  the  eval  shell  command  to  set the $PULSE_SERVER, $PULSE_SINK, $PULSE_SOURCE environment
              variables.  Also  reads  the  authentication  cookie  from  the  root  window  and  stores  it  in
              ~/.config/pulse/cookie.

       -e     Export the currently locally used sound server, sink, source configuration to the X11 root window.
              This takes the data from the $PULSE_SERVER, $PULSE_SINK, $PULSE_SOURCE environment  variables  and
              combines  them  with  the data from ~/.config/pulse/client.conf (or /etc/pulse/client.conf if that
              file does not exist). If specific options are passed on the command line  (-S,  -O,  -I,  -c,  see
              below),  they take precedence. Also uploads the local authentication cookie ~/.config/pulse/cookie
              to the X11 server.

       -r     Removes the configured PulseAudio configuration from the X11 root window.

       -D DISPLAY
              Connect to the specified X11 display, instead of the default one configured in $DISPLAY.

       -S SERVER
              Only valid for -e: export the specified PulseAudio server as default to the X11 display instead of
              the one configured via local configuration.

       -O SINK
              Only valid for -e: export the specified sink as default sink to the X11 display instead of the one
              configured via local configuration.

       -I SOURCE
              Only valid for -e: export the specified source as default to the X11 display instead  of  the  one
              configured via local configuration.

       -c FILE
              Only valid for -e: export the PulseAudio authentication cookie stored in the specified file to the
              X11 display instead of the one stored in ~/.config/pulse/cookie.

AUTHORS

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

SEE ALSO

       pulseaudio(1), xprop(1)