pulseaudio Command Examples

The PulseAudio sound system daemon and manager. More information: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/.

• Check if PulseAudio is running (a non-zero exit code means it is not running):

pulseaudio --check

• Start the PulseAudio daemon in the background:

pulseaudio --start

• Kill the running PulseAudio daemon:

pulseaudio --kill

• List available modules:

pulseaudio --dump-modules

• Load a module into the currently running daemon with the specified arguments:

pulseaudio --load="{{module_name}} {{arguments}}"