Hi, I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but you don't need to specify the port number when using aconnect. You can do things like: aconnect 'Midisport 2x2':1 'Pure Data':1 Andr?s On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 13:41, Atte Andr? Jensen wrote: > Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > you can try LASH, but not each JACK app is lashified so you're > > still in need to do some shell scripting. > > Looks promising but a bit alpha. > > How to others solve the problem? > > And my initial questions remains: how to determine where apps show up, > and how to jack-connect them from the commandline.