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authorDiego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>2020-04-25 11:32:07 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2020-04-28 23:28:17 +0200
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doc: Mention that PulseAudio service overrides user configuration.
* doc/guix.texi (Sound Services): Add a warning that 'pulseaudio-service-type' overrides per-user configuration files in '~/.config/pulse'. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2018, 2019 Florian Pelz@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Laura Lazzati@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Alex Vong@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Josh Holland@*
-Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Diego Nicola Barbato@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2019, 2020 Diego Nicola Barbato@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Ivan Petkov@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Jakob L. Kreuze@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Kyle Andrews@*
@@ -16290,6 +16290,13 @@ sound server. It exists to allow system overrides of the default settings
via @code{pulseaudio-configuration}, see below.
@quotation Warning
+This service overrides per-user configuration files. If you want
+PulseAudio to honor configuraton files in @file{~/.config/pulse} you
+have to unset the environment variables @code{PULSE_CONFIG} and
+@code{PULSE_CLIENTCONFIG} in your @file{~/.bash_profile}.
+@end quotation
+
+@quotation Warning
This service on its own does not ensure, that the @code{pulseaudio} package
exists on your machine. It merely adds configuration files for it, as
detailed below. In the (admittedly unlikely) case, that you find yourself