[Unit] Description=Sound Service # We require pulseaudio.socket to be active before starting the daemon, for two # reasons: # # 1. There are no implicit dependencies between sockets and services, so # the socket, as set up by systemd will race with the socket, as set up # by the pulseaudio daemon. This can cause the pulseaudio.socket unit to # fail (even though the pulseaudio service started just fine), which can # confuse users. # 2. While it is possible to use the service without the socket, it is not # clear why it would be desirable. And a user installing pulseaudio and # doing `systemctl --user start pulseaudio` will not get the socket # started, which might be confusing and problematic if the server is to # be restarted later on, as the client autospawn feature might kick in. Requires=pulseaudio.socket After=pulseaudio.socket [Service] # Note that notify will only work if --daemonize=no Type=notify ExecStart=@PA_BINARY@ --daemonize=no Restart=on-failure [Install] Also=pulseaudio.socket WantedBy=default.target