# Completely disable "audio" support on ThinLinc Server

**URL:** <https://community.thinlinc.com/t/completely-disable-audio-support-on-thinlinc-server/719>\
**Category:** Community Support\
**Tags:** webaccess, tlserver\
**Created:** [15 September 2023 09:45 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/completely-disable-audio-support-on-thinlinc-server/719 "2023-09-15T09:45:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mokaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@mokaz](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/mokaz)\
**Post date:** [15 September 2023 09:45 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/completely-disable-audio-support-on-thinlinc-server/719/1 "2023-09-15T09:45:16Z")

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Hi TL team,

I’m looking at possible way(s) to disengage/disable any use of audio forwarding from the TL server side.  
I’ve seen that, on LXQt for example, “pulseaudio” is tacking a massive amount of CPU resources while no audio is needed on that particular system.

I’d take any clues =)

Thanks,  
Kind regards,  
Thanks for TL, love it!!

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**Author:** ![martin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.thinlinc.com/martin/32/41_2.png) [@martin](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [15 September 2023 14:10 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/completely-disable-audio-support-on-thinlinc-server/719/2 "2023-09-15T14:10:41Z")

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Hello @mokaz,

The only way I know of to stop audio redirection from the server side is to unset PULSE\_COOKIE, PULSE\_SERVER and PULSE\_RUNTIME\_DIR for the users.

This could be achieved by creating a startup-script inside `/opt/thinlinc/etc/xstartup.d/` that does this. It will be executed on creation of new sessions.

But more curious to why PulseAudio is hogging resources for you. I think I’ve heard of something similar when the client PulseAudio server has crashed. Is this something you only observe in LXQt ?

Regards,  
Martin

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**Author:** ![mokaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@mokaz](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/mokaz)\
**Post date:** [5 November 2023 08:32 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/completely-disable-audio-support-on-thinlinc-server/719/3 "2023-11-05T08:32:06Z")

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Thanks Martin, I’ll come back at you onto this – this was an issue on an ephemeral lab on which, killing pulse was done manually at the end… though I’d also like to get to the bottom of this… cheers. m.