esdcompat1

Usage

Overview

esdcompat is a compatibility script that takes the same arguments as the ESD sound daemon esd(1), but uses them to start a the PulseAudio sound server with the appropriate parameters. It is required to make PulseAudio a drop-in replacement for esd, i.e. it can be used to make gnome-session(1) start up PulseAudio instead of esd.

It is recommended to make esd a symbolic link to this script.

Options

-h | --help

Show help.

--version

Show version information.

-tcp | -promiscuous | -d | -b | -r | -as | -unix | -public | -terminate | -nobeeps | -trust | -port | -bind

These options understood by the original esd are ignored by esdcompat.

-spawnpid | -spawnfd

These internally used options understood by the original esd are properly handled by esdcompat, however are not to be used manually.