NAME

       pulse-client.conf - PulseAudio client configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       ~/.config/pulse/client.conf

       /etc/pulse/client.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The   PulseAudio   client   library   reads   configuration   directives   from   a   file
       ~/.config/pulse/client.conf  on  startup  and  when   that   file   doesn't   exist   from
       /etc/pulse/client.conf.

       The   configuration  file  is  a  simple  collection  of  variable  declarations.  If  the
       configuration file parser encounters either ; or # it ignores the rest of the  line  until
       its end.

       For  the  settings  that  take  a  boolean  argument  the  values  true, yes, on and 1 are
       equivalent, resp. false, no, off, 0.

DIRECTIVES

       default-sink= The default sink to connect to. If specified overwrites the setting  in  the
       daemon. The environment variable $PULSE_SINK however takes precedence.

       default-source=  The  default source to connect to. If specified overwrites the setting in
       the daemon. The environment variable $PULSE_SOURCE however takes precedence.

       default-server= The default sever to connect to. The  environment  variable  $PULSE_SERVER
       takes precedence.

       autospawn=  Autospawn  a PulseAudio daemon when needed. Takes a boolean value, defaults to
       yes.

       daemon-binary= Path to the PulseAudio daemon to run when autospawning. Defaults to a  path
       configured at compile time.

       extra-arguments=  Extra  arguments  to  pass  to  the PulseAudio daemon when autospawning.
       Defaults to --log-target=syslog

       cookie-file= Specify the  path  to  the  PulseAudio  authentication  cookie.  Defaults  to
       ~/.config/pulse/cookie.

       enable-shm=  Enable  data  transfer  via  POSIX  shared  memory. Takes a boolean argument,
       defaults to yes.

       shm-size-bytes= Sets the shared memory  segment  size  for  clients,  in  bytes.  If  left
       unspecified  or  is  set  to 0 it will default to some system-specific default, usually 64
       MiB. Please note that usually there is no need  to  change  this  value,  unless  you  are
       running an OS kernel that does not do memory overcommit.

       auto-connect-localhost= Automatically try to connect to localhost via IP. Enabling this is
       a potential security hole since connections are only authenticated  one-way  and  a  rogue
       server  might  hence fool a client into sending it its private (e.g. VoIP call) data. This
       was enabled by default on PulseAudio version 0.9.21 and older. Defaults to no.

       auto-connect-display= Automatically try to connect to the host X11's $DISPLAY variable  is
       set to. The same security issues apply as to auto-connect-localhost=. Defaults to no.

AUTHORS

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

SEE ALSO

       pulse-daemon.conf(5), pulseaudio(1)