Sam Bailey wrote:
>>> Try to disable slide-show in Kdesktop.
>> it already is as I have the screensaver completely disabled.
>
> As have I on my machines.
>
> Is pasuspender the best to stop pulseaudio? or does it just reduce the load a
> little bit?

pasuspender tells pulse to release the audio device, but it will still
be running through it's mainloop. It should help, but I wouldn't use
this as a technique to reduce pulse's use of CPU cycles.

Col

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