> That's a known [0] (but AFAIK undocumented) side effect of the > PulseAudio service, which was added to %desktop-services in January > [1]. If you want PulseAudio to read your user configuration files > you'll have to remove that service from your system services or unset > PULSE_CONFIG and PULSE_CLIENT_CONFIG in ~/.profile [2].
Thank you very much for pointing that out, I've solved all my problems with Pulseaudio now. Glad it was just a trivial misconfiguration and not a bug.
