[linux-audio-user] Start up script for DAW ...

[Paul Winkler]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 08:10:26AM -0800, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 04:20, Steve Harris wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:09:14 -0800, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
> > > I start the gui based apps from a console so I can run them as root. The
> > > functions such as the midi port connections in the sequence of opening
> > > apps is the issue. I'm also green in this area. Have never written any
> > > scripts before...wouldn't know where to start.
> > 
> > A shell script is simply a text file starting with #!, and made executable
> > by setting the x bit (eg. chmod a+x myscript.sh)
> > 
> > eg.
> > 
> > #!
> > ardour mysession
> > otherprogram /path/to/saved/file
> 
> In doing this...(I went to work on figuring some of this out and
> realised a shell script is kinda like a batch file on steroids)

Exactly.

> If I
> placed Qjackctl then Another app like AMS in the same script, the
> interface for Qjack would freeze until I terminated AMS. Is there a
> function argument or such that separates individual app calls?

Run them in the background like so:

#!/bin/sh

qjackctl &
ardour &
hydrogen &
ams &
 
> > LASH (n?e LADCCA) is probably a better longtem solution to this problem
> > (http://lash-audio-session-handler.org/), but not many apps support it
> > yet.

Yep. I'd really really love LASH / LADDCA / whatever to become
as ubiquitous as JACK.

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