Hi Michael.  Thanks for the response.

On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:33:39 -0400
"D. Michael McIntyre" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/28/2012 02:06 PM, Jim Cochrane wrote:
> > jackd is started up whenever I start
> > rosegarden, even though this box is unchecked.  Is there another
> > spot in the GUI to disable jack that I'm not seeing?
> 
> There is no box for that as such.  Rosegarden isn't starting jackd so 
> much as the JACK API is starting jackd.  I misremember the technical 
> details, but basically we made a minor change to use a different API 
> call, and now the audio server starts itself when Rosegarden does if 
> it's not already running.  This is basically a good thing, since it 
> starts Rosegarden with all of its features enabled by default.
> 
> There isn't any neat way to disable this.  The workaround is to edit 
> your ~/.jackdrc and just put some garbage in there whenever you don't 
> want JACK to start.

I presumed that this would be the case - that there's a reasonable
explanation for missing this config. option.  So I went ahead with my
version of a work-around:  I renamed /bin/jackd to /bin/jackd-hidden.
Your method is less brutal and more reasonable, though, so I think I'll
switch to it.
> 
> For example, you had:
> 
>    /usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -dhw:2 -r48000 -p1024 -n2 -S
> 
> Change to something like:
> 
>    foo/usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -dhw:2 -r48000 -p1024 -n2 -S
> 
> Since foo/usr/bin/jackd is an invalid path, it will fail, and no more 
> audio server.
> 
> I suppose we could consider making some config option that would
> prevent Rosegarden from even attempting to start JACK, but I'd really
> rather not bother unless there is a lot of demand.  It's just one
> more confusing configuration option for people to misunderstand, one
> more thing for everybody to have to translate, and one more thing for
> users to forget they changed, so we have to ask what this setting is
> when they come along one day complaining that audio is broken, six
> months after the last time they tinkered around with their settings.
> I'd really rather not, but I'm not giving a firm no for an answer.

I won't argue against that.  If this was expensive commercial software,
I'd feel I have a right to ask; but it's not, and since there appears
to be some good work going on to RG these days, I don't want to risk
slowing it down for an unnecessary request.


Thanks.
Jim

 

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