pasuspender(1) General Commands Manual pasuspender(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

pasuspender - Temporarily suspend PulseAudio

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**pasuspender \[options] -- PROGRAM \[ARGUMENTS ...]**

pasuspender --help

pasuspender --version

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

*pasuspender* is a tool that can be used to tell a local PulseAudio sound server to temporarily suspend access to the audio devices, to allow other applications access them directly. *pasuspender* will suspend access to the audio devices, fork a child process, and when the child process terminates, resume access again.

Make sure to include **--** in your *pasuspender* command line before passing the subprocess command line (as shown above). Otherwise *pasuspender* itself might end up interpreting the command line switches and options you intended to pass to the subprocess.

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

[**-h | --help**](#h)

Show help.

[**--version**](#version)

Show version information.

[**-s | --server=SERVER**](#s)

Specify the sound server to connect to.

# [AUTHORS](#AUTHORS)

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

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**pulseaudio(1)**](/man/os/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.1), [**padsp(1)**](/man/os/pulseaudio/padsp.1), [**pacmd(1)**](/man/os/pulseaudio/pacmd.1), [**pactl(1)**](/man/os/pulseaudio/pactl.1)

User Manuals

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Document: pasuspender(1) from pulseaudio 17.0-r13 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio