On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:09:14 -0800, Russell Hanaghan wrote: > I start the gui based apps from a console so I can run them as root. The > functions such as the midi port connections in the sequence of opening > apps is the issue. I'm also green in this area. Have never written any > scripts before...wouldn't know where to start. A shell script is simply a text file starting with #!, and made executable by setting the x bit (eg. chmod a+x myscript.sh) eg. #! ardour mysession otherprogram /path/to/saved/file Last time I look though I couldn't find a way to pass a saved file to AMS, thats was a while ago, and someonme might have fixed it since then. LASH (n?e LADCCA) is probably a better longtem solution to this problem (http://lash-audio-session-handler.org/), but not many apps support it yet. - Steve