default.pa(5) File Formats Manual default.pa(5)

# [NAME](#NAME)

default.pa - PulseAudio Sound Server Startup Script

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**~/.config/pulse/default.pa**

*/etc/pulse/default.pa*

*/etc/pulse/system.pa*

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

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)**](/man/os/pulseaudio/pulse-cli-syntax.5).

# [AUTHORS](#AUTHORS)

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

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**pulse-cli-syntax(5)**](/man/os/pulseaudio/pulse-cli-syntax.5), [**pulse-daemon.conf(5)**](/man/os/pulseaudio/pulse-daemon.conf.5), [**pulseaudio(1)**](/man/os/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.1), [**pacmd(1)**](/man/os/pulseaudio/pacmd.1)

User Manuals

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Document: default.pa(5) from pulseaudio 17.0-r11 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio