chino-0.10 is out, another re-write. Chino is a session management framework written in Bash. Pretty much alpha, I suspect there might be some bugs left occurring in corner cases I haven't encountered yet. http://chino.tuxfamily.org/ Previous versions generated session scripts for a very limited variety of setups. The current version differs in three main points, in that: (1) no script is written, sessions can now be recovered from a 'session definition file'; (2) the possible variety of setups is much larger since the main script is separated from implementation, i.e. a user can quite freely define applications and their behaviour; (3) it provides a runtime user interface, for adding and removing applications while the session is running. The purpose is not to add another session management system to the LASH/LADISH/JackSession ecosystem, chino is somewhat different in scope. I neither claim that it's exactly simple nor that it is of any particular elegance, but it serves my needs very well -- I can hopefully now start making music. :) An excerpt from the features list on the website: a 'load session' command and a 'save session' keybinding (the latter saves only the session, the state of any involved application—if applicable—needs to be manually saved to the appropriate file from within the application); presets and template sessions for simple creation or forking of sessions; a text user interface to add or remove applications while running, with no manual connection-making involved; adding support for an application amounts to adding a file containing some variables and functions, thus no support on the application's side is required (apart from the ability to recover a state via command line and/or file loading, without manual user interaction); mono-stereo-agnostic audio connecting and Jack-Alsa- agnostic Midi connecting; a hierarchical session layout with dependency check, suggestions and the option to view an image displaying the session graph (the passive "GUI"). best, d