On 09/28/2014 07:06 PM, Paul Davis wrote: i see that your patch only reads the pretty-names (metadata) if exists at runtime and uses them as the "official" port-names instead. so, who or what does the pretty-name setup? that is, who or what sets the pretty-names of each port in the first place? i was thinking about the user using the qjackctl client/port aliases functionality already in place and use it eg. to run jack_set_property() on each renamed client/port alias on jack server start (as read from Qjackctl.conf file, on a per preset basis). what you think? -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org