[LAU] make a VU meter listen to jack output ports

[Kjetil Matheussen]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Kjetil Matheussen <k.s.matheussen at gmail.com
> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Peter P. <peterparker at fastmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> * Peter P. <peterparker at fastmail.com> [2015-06-14 13:22]:
>> [...]
>> > > Strangely this does not work when I start it from fluxbox' menu, ie.
>> > > without a visible (x)terminal. The application (and hence the
>> > > meterbridge) close immediately. Do you have an idea why this could
>> > > happen?
>> >
>> > Sorry, I posted before doing my homework
>> > The --disable-console option helped here.
>>
>> But I am afraid the the meters still don't come up every time.
>> The --no-stdin does not help as well, but has other unpleasant results.
>> It seems that jack_capture needs to have a console it can output things
>> to.
>>
>>
> Maybe it's possible to start an invisible terminal thats jack_capture.
> I don't know how to do that though. Maybe there's a general X option
> for starting a program minimized? (I tried googling it, but didn't find
> any)
>
>
Found a solution:

 xterm -e 'xwit -iconify ; jack_capture --meterbridge --timemachine --port
system:playback_1 --port system:playback_2'

(BTW, you don't need to add the "--port system:playback_1 --port
system:playback_2" options, since those are the default values)
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