On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Austin wrote:

> > * Auto start up of JACK.
> 
> Nobody wants jack running all the time.  

No, but it isn't nice for a user to start Ardour from the menu (without 
starting a jackd), and be booted out. One slashdot user thought Ardour was 
buggy/badly packaged because of this, and switched distributions ...

Can you not have the ardour menu entry run a script that checks if a jackd 
is running (even via pgrep if necessary), and if not, tell the user they 
need to run one?

(I can write one for you, if you will fix zenity for me ;-)).

> Seriously.  Unless the computer is  
> used exclusively for audio production, in which case the user is not likely to  
> choose Mandrake (which I'm fighting against, but losing).
> 

What do they run, and why?

Regards,
Buchan

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