default.pa(5)

default.pa5

Pulseaudio sound server startup script

Usage

~/.config/pulse/default.pa

/etc/pulse/default.pa

/etc/pulse/system.pa

Overview

The PulseAudio sound server interprets a configuration script on startup, which is mainly used to define the set of modules to load. When PulseAudio runs in the per-user mode and ~/.config/pulse/default.pa exists, that file is used. When PulseAudio runs in the per-user mode and that file doesn't exist, /etc/pulse/default.pa is used. When PulseAudio runs as a system service, /etc/pulse/system.pa is used.

The script should contain directives in the PulseAudio CLI language, as documented in pulse-cli-syntax(5).

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 8
  3. 9–Arch

Authors

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

From pulseaudio 17.0+r134+g77d25a1e6-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.