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


On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Peter P. <peterparker@fastmail.com> wrote:
* Peter P. <peterparker@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)