> On 2018-01-08 08:01 AM, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
>> ...  I just converted a heavily-used Manjaro/XFCE4 desktop, two years in
>> use and regularly updated, into a Linux audio testing machine, without glitches.

On 01/08/2018 10:09 AM, Peter Lutek wrote:
> would you be kind enough to outline your "conversion" procedure?
>
> cheers!
> .pltk.
>

Yup.  yaourt -S cadence and recommendeds, and yaourt/pacman the apps I use (right now, just yoshimi).  Also the usual config changes discovered with realtimeconfigquickscan, no kernel change needed, no reload.  It helps that I use xfce4, which interferes a lot less than other desktops have in my past.  I was very surprised at how well it went; in my most recent production box build, about a year ago, I had to scrag xfce4 and go with LXDE to get rid of some xruns. 

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