From a95a9d05e5816968da9e930c49d233a25540cab0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Meerwald Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:06:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] man: Describe optional prefix {string} in server address see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84024 v2: (thanks Tanu Kaskinen) * fix wording wrt machine id Signed-off-by: Peter Meerwald --- man/pulseaudio.1.xml.in | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man/pulseaudio.1.xml.in b/man/pulseaudio.1.xml.in index aed21f6c3..0d278b7b7 100644 --- a/man/pulseaudio.1.xml.in +++ b/man/pulseaudio.1.xml.in @@ -457,7 +457,9 @@ License along with PulseAudio; if not, see . server addresses separated by whitespace which are tried in turn. A server address consists of an optional address type specifier (unix:, tcp:, tcp4:, tcp6:), followed by a path or host address. A host address may include an - optional port number.

+ optional port number. A server address may be prefixed by a string enclosed + in {}. In this case the following server address is ignored unless the prefix + string equals the local hostname or the machine id (/etc/machine-id).

$PULSE_SINK: the symbolic name of the sink to connect to when a client creates a playback stream and doesn't explicitly ask for a specific sink.