pax11publish - PulseAudio X11 Credential Utility
pax11publish -h
pax11publish [options] [-d]
pax11publish [options] -e
pax11publish [options] -i
pax11publish [options] -r
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_
- -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.
The PulseAudio Developers <pulseaudio-discuss (at) lists (dot) freedesktop
(dot) org>; PulseAudio is available from http://pulseaudio.org/