sound Audio

Unless you disable audio forwarding, you can start and stop it from the system tray at any time.

The client and server will negotiate which codec to use. The most widely tested and supported codecs are opus, vorbis, flac and mp3.

Unlike screen updates which are sent as discrete events, audio compression processes the operating system's audio stream and so this is a continuous process which will take up a little bit of CPU and bandwidth.

If you want to turn off speaker forwarding, use the option speaker=off in your system wide xpra.conf (to disable it globally) or in the per-user configuration file, or on the command line

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Options

The main controls can be specified in the configuration file or on the command line, and they are documented in the manual:

Other options are only available through environment variables for fine tuning - which should rarely be needed: