---
name: "pasuspender"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pulseaudio"
version: "17.0+r134+g77d25a1e6-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pasuspender"
---

# pasuspender(1)

Temporarily suspend PulseAudio

## NAME

pasuspender - Temporarily suspend PulseAudio

## SYNOPSIS

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

**pasuspender --help**

**pasuspender --version**

## DESCRIPTION

*pasuspender* is a tool that can be used to tell a local PulseAudio sound server to temporarily suspend access to the audio devices, to allow other applications access them directly. *pasuspender* will suspend access to the audio devices, fork a child process, and when the child process terminates, resume access again.

Make sure to include **--** in your *pasuspender* command line before passing the subprocess command line (as shown above). Otherwise *pasuspender* itself might end up interpreting the command line switches and options you intended to pass to the subprocess.

## 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/**

## SEE ALSO

**[pulseaudio(1)](/pulseaudio/1.md)**, **[padsp(1)](/padsp/1.md)**, **[pacmd(1)](/pacmd/1.md)**, **[pactl(1)](/pactl/1.md)**