On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:51:41AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 18:08 +1200, Ross Hamblin wrote: > > Unless I have missed something I think one of the audio > > session-managers should help you on the audio side, not so sure about > > other apps though. > > Jack-session and ladish work well for me unless I have misunderstood. > > Non-session is also popular although I have not tried that myself yet. > > Hi, > > I've doubts that session managers are that comfortable as a script is. I > might be mistaken. > > I'm starting sessions by a script. I don't like to use jack dbus. > Do those session managers really take care about the configurations in > ~? AFAIK they automatically add changes I make during a session, even if > I make those changes only temporarily or by mistake. When I tested > ladish I was to stupid to use it without a learning curve and I don't > want to add something complicated to my sessions, I also won't something > to add that does need resources, CPU and/or RAM. Following the Linux > audio users mailing list I read a lot of whining about unsupported > applications, somebody lost a production, because he used jack-session > in a wrong way. So IIUC session managers aren't neither safe to use, nor > able to handle all applications. > > I don't want additional GUI stuff on the Desktop, I already avoid to use > even qjackctl and for sure I won't be forced to use patchage or > something similar confusingly. There should be as less Windows as > possible. Several apps should be automatically startet in a terminal > emulation, a script can do this, are session managers able to do this > too? This unfortunately is important, since I never run an audio session > were there wasn't the need to troubleshoot. > > Some audio apps are able to take care about the configurations (the user > can save and restore them giving a path), others e.g. Qtractor don't and > for some apps it's even hard to find the configuration files in ~. > > I don't need something to start the applications, a script can do this > very good, I also don't need something to load songs, samples etc., this > also can be done by a script, I just miss a way to find all hidden > config files in ~ and to safe them to a path were I store the > productions. > > My workaround is to save and restore ~ nearly completely, sure, without > touching e.g. emails. > > It also would be nice, even if it's not that important, if I could use > another configuration profile even for e.g. xfce4-terminal for audio > sessions. > > Regards, > Ralf > I am unaware of what applications you are using but most applications have the option to specify different configuration files than the default $HOME directory so it should be a simple matter of using this option to specify your configuration path. Regards John
