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)

Furthermore, automatically reconnecting to jack applications which play
back audio, does only happen if jack_capture/meterbridge have been
started when that application (mplayer in my case) was already playing
back.

But this is only a problem if you don't run it from a terminal?