[PD] jack autostart?

Peter P. peterparker at fastmail.com
Sun Aug 23 21:11:46 CEST 2015


IOhannes,

* IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> [2015-08-23 14:32]:
> On 08/19/2015 08:13 PM, Peter P. wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> in Debian (and derivatives, like Ubuntu), starting with
> puredata_0.46.6-1, jack autostart has been disabled (see the
> "fix_dont_autostart_jack.patch" at [1]).
I am on Debian with Miller's git and
pd -version gives me
	Pd-0.46.6 ("") compiled 14:05:53 Aug 19 2015

> > I would hereby vote for not starting the jackd server automatically, as
> > jackd would pick up any ~/.jackdrc present in the user's homedir, which
> > might not fit the desired sound card setup as ~/.jackdrc gets rewritten
> > by qjackctl with its most recently used settings.
 
> the reason why i *was* changed is, that once jack has been autostarted,
> it is impossible to quit Pd properly (most likely due to the fork-off of
> pd-gui; but i haven't been able to properly track it down).
Ah, interesting behavior. Well, it seems this one gets ruled out once
autostart is disabled.
 
> but anyhow, i agree: i would also vote for disabling jack-autostart, as
> it makes more trouble than it solves.
Thanks,

best, P



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