esdcompat (1)
NAME
esdcompat - PulseAudio ESD wrapper scriptSYNOPSIS
esdcompat [options]esdcompat --help
esdcompat --version
DESCRIPTION
esdcompat is a compatibility script that takes the same arguments as the ESD sound daemon esd(1), but uses them to start a the PulseAudio sound server with the appropriate parameters. It is required to make PulseAudio a drop-in replacement for esd, i.e. it can be used to make gnome-session(1) start up PulseAudio instead of esd.It is recommended to make esd a symbolic link to this script.
OPTIONS
- -h | --help
- Show help.
- --version
- Show version information.
- -tcp | -promiscuous | -d | -b | -r | -as | -unix | -public | -terminate | -nobeeps | -trust | -port | -bind
- These options understood by the original esd are ignored by esdcompat.
- -spawnpid | -spawnfd
- These internally used options understood by the original esd are properly handled by esdcompat, however are not to be used manually.