Le Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:05:36 +0100, Elthariel <ballet_j(a)epitech.net> a écrit : The sound server is independant from the wm. Now, is it some wm that have they own sound server as arts in kde. But those sound server use some kind of audio drivers to work: alsa, oss, whatever. For jack support, all you need is a working alsa driver. I prefer myself a wm that doesn't have its own sound server as fvwm or fluxbox. My favorite at that time is fvwm-crystal. Fvwm is an incredibly flexible wm, and it is worth to learn it even if ti can be time consuming at the beginning. Debian and debian based distro have a menu system (package menu) that will incorporate all your applications in the menu of each single wm you have in the system and save you a lot of writing with wm as fvwm or crystal to incorporate the apps in the menu. For lash support, the best way is to use an audio focused distribution. The gentoo proaudio overlay: http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page have a very extensive lash support. Lash have nothing to do with the wm but only with the applications, some support it, some not. In this overlay, all the sound programs that have lash capability will have it after the package installation. Some ebuilds provide patches for some applications in order to get lash with more apps. I am not sure for the other audio distributions. Demudi is quite old now and doesn't have lash support. The next Demudi release must be ready with the next Debian release and must have lash support. But we have to want a few months for that. Or you can try the devel version of Demudi. Studio64 have both a 32 and a 64 bits distributions and is more up-to-date as Demudi, but I don't know the state of lash in this distribution. Other distributions that can maybe have lash support fot the applications at that time are Musix and PlanetCCRMA. (And maybe even the jacklab (opensuse) and/or ubuntu) I would recommend gentoo with the audiopro overlay, or Studio64. Both are very up-to-date and are fast moving, especially gentoo, but Studio64 will be easier to install and you can install Debian's menu system with it (The best menu system I know). Gentoo have the best docs and forum I know, but it can take some time to learn it because of the added complexity and flexibility that compiling all from the sources will give you. An advantage with gentoo and its proaudio overlay is at, if you want a software that is not in the overlay or in portage, you can drop a mail at the proaudio email list, and in most cases, the ebuild for this new program will be added in the overlay within a few days. (or you can even contribute with an ebuild, they are not so hard to write in many cases). -- Dominique Michel -- N.B.: Tous les emails que je reçois sont filtrés par spamassassin avant de me parvenir. Si vous attendez une réponse de ma part et que vous ne la recevez pas, cela signifie qu'en toute vraisemblance, votre courrier ne m'est pas parvenu car vous figurez sur une des listes de http://www.spamhaus.org.