How do i stop pulseaudio?

Question

In this version of ubuntu, pulseaudio is a service started for the user. The different commands tried

> pulseaudio -k
> systemctl --user stop pulseaudio

> changing pulse.conf to include autospawn=no
> systemctl daemon-reload
> systemctl --user stop pulseaudio

> pkill -9 pulseaudio

It respawns all the time because systemd restarts it. Should i kill the systemd --user instance or is there something else that is tweakable?

Solution

You need to stop the systemd user socket.

systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.socket

systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.service

You can also use the disable, enable, reload, and restart commands as well. That should stop pulseaudio from respawning until you start it back up. Hope that helps

Comments

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