pasuspender(1)

✨ pasuspender(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual glow-up of pasuspender 💅 this is the little icon that gently asks your PulseAudio to scoot over for a sec. buckle up 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

pasuspender — temporarily suspend PulseAudio 💤 (just for a lil bit, she'll be back)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

pasuspender --help

pasuspender --version

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically, pasuspender is the tool you use when you want to tell a local PulseAudio sound server to temporarily suspend access to the audio devices 🔇 — like, pause, girl, let someone else through — so that other applications can access them directly. she's not being mean, she's being generous 🫶

the way it works is: pasuspender suspends access to the audio devices, forks a child process, and then — the moment that child process terminates — she resumes access again 🌈 iconic behavior honestly.

⚠️ okay this part is IMPORTANT and I need you to actually read it bestie: make sure to include -- in your pasuspender command line before passing the subprocess command line (as shown up there in the synopsis). otherwise pasuspender herself might end up interpreting the command line switches and options you intended to pass to the subprocess 😭 and that would be a whole mess. use the --. periodt.

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -h | --help — show help 🥰
• --version — show version information 👑
• -s | --server=SERVER — specify the sound server to connect to 🔌

🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

the PulseAudio Developers <pulseaudio-discuss (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; PulseAudio is available from http://pulseaudio.org/ 🌐 absolute legends, no cap.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

pulseaudio(1), padsp(1), pacmd(1), pactl(1) — go read the whole squad, iykyk 💜

k bye ily, go suspend responsibly 🎀

signed off from the Manuals corner of the User section, where pasuspender(1) lives ✨🦋