What starts /usr/bin/pulseaudio on a fedora machine?

Question

I looked in /lib/systemd and /etc/systemd, recursively, and none of the services or dependencies have the string pulseaudio in them.

Comments

FWIW, I tried the two following commands and got nothing from either of  them:

ps aux | grep pulse | grep -i grep
ps aux | grep audio | grep -i grep

Checking, Xfce starts it when I log in, which explains why my morning alarm clock doesn't sound off if my computer reboots and I haven't logged back in yet.

Answer 1

Your command should to be

ps aux | grep pulse | grep -v grep
not -i

Answer 2

It depends on the desktop.

In KDE, kdeinit5 will call /bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 and if in /etc/pulse/client.conf autospawn is set to yes (default) then pulseaudio will be started with the parameters specified in that config file.