[LAU] Fwd: Re: Ardour Version Question: 2 versus 3?

[hollundertee at gmx.net]

On Mon, 4 May 2015 22:06:56 -0400
Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Simon Wise <simonzwise at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 05/05/15 05:56, ORL wrote:
> >
> >  but I feel A3 quite less usable in i3wm, as you need to recall
> > much more
> >> key
> >> bindings to be able to close the windows you've opened (i3 doesn't
> >> provide window decoration) as there is no "OK" nor "cancel".
> >>
> >
> > i3 has a 'kill' command, which is the same as the (x) in window
> > decorations, and like anything in i3 you can bind it how you like,
> > here it is meta+backspace ... but I would assume most users of i3
> > have their own preferred keybindings.
> >
> 
> all ardour dialogs and subwindows can be closed with Ctrl-w when they
> have keyboard focus.

I'm just writing because I recently did that...

I did that on the mixer window (with what is probably the latest
version of A3), ardour crashed.

Now I'm on A4, and it does not respond to ctrl+w.

Oh, and A4 did not manage to run with the alsa backend, while jack
works fine on the same interface.

Regards,
Philipp