On 10/30/2012 04:40 PM, John O'Hagan wrote: > On 29/10/12 09:33, D. Michael McIntyre 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. > > [...] > >> >> 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 > [...] > > I agree with the approach, but there is an unfortunate consequence in > this case, at least on my Debian XFCE box, RG 12.04: after using > Rosegarden, jackd remains running, and prevents all my normal (ALSA) > applications' audio from working, except the handful which are > automatically jack-aware. This means manually terminating jack, from a > task manager or whatever, after each RG session; users still have to > manage jack, with all the attendant potential for confusion. > > I'm not sure why this is happening, as jackd is started with the -T > option, which means it should exit once it has no clients left, and > which is what it used to do when I started jack manually (using > qjackctl) in earlier RG versions which did not start jack automatically. > However, now it keeps running happily after RG exits, even though > qjackctl shows no connections remain. Any ideas why?
Hmm, I just started RG 12.04 under Debian Sid XFCE. RG didn't start up jackd. Which is the way I like it. So your RG is starting JACK whether or not you want it started???? -- David [email protected] authenticity, honesty, community http://clanjones.org/david/ http://dancing-treefrog.deviantart.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
