[5ggggg]

I start Kodi 16 from Ubuntu 14LTS Unity desktop. I think about 2 starting shortcuts. One which I have already starts Kodi without pulseaudio like this

Code:

export AE_SINK=ALSA
pasuspender -- kodi --standalone

I use this to have bitstream passthrough to my AVR. Audio is set to the alsa Nvidia-HDMI-Output connected to my AVR.

The second Shortcut should just run with pulse enabled and Audio Output should be the "default pulse server". There I have a combined sink delivering PCM sound.
So I hope that I can pass the appropriate (path to) guisettings.xml in the starting command line.

Or should this be done by passing different profile names ? But I dont want a login screen !

[wsnipex]

you cannot pass another guisettings.xml.
The best you can do is to modify/copy a fitting guisettings.xml from your script before starting kodi.