<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440007957065_7363">Why not submit a patch for a new startup flag which controls this behavior? That way the souped-up setup gurus don't clash with the the users who "just want sound" with a default jack install. (Thus no need for voting, which is so 19th century anyway...)<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440007957065_7363"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1440007957065_7363">-Jonathan</div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 2:14 PM, Peter P. <peterparker@fastmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">Hi,<br><br>I just discovered that <br> pd -jack<br>will start a jackd if there is none running already. <br><br>In src/s_audio_jack.c I found a comment saying that <br><br> (If no JACK server exists, jack_client_open() will start uone up by<br> default. It's not clear whether or not this is desirable; see long Pd<br> list thread started by yvan volochine, June 2013)<br><br>I would hereby vote for not starting the jackd server automatically, as<br>jackd would pick up any ~/.jackdrc present in the user's homedir, which<br>might not fit the desired sound card setup as ~/.jackdrc gets rewritten<br>by qjackctl with its most recently used settings.<br><br>Once users (such as me) start using multiple sound cards, at multiple<br>sampling rats, with multiple other parameters, it becomes very hard to<br>have Pd autostart jack with the desired settings automatically. It would<br>start jackd, but with possibly confusing and unwanted settings.<br><br>I changed the line 340 in src/s_audio_jack.c to <br> jack_client = jack_client_open (client_name, JackNoStartServer, &status, NULL)<br>and recompiled and am happy with the new behavior.<br><br>cheers, P<br><br>_______________________________________________<br><a ymailto="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at" href="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at">Pd-list@lists.iem.at</a> mailing list<br>UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list" target="_blank">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>