[ubuntu-studio-users] Upgrade to 19.10

[Mac]

I may have been misinformed. But isn't qjackctl being deprecated with Carla
being the future? Just curious. I used qjackctl for years.

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 8:10 AM Thomas Pfundt <captain-tux at protonmail.ch>
wrote:

> Hi Neil,
>
> On Thursday, 31 October 2019 02:06, Neil McBennett <neil at mcbennett.net>
> wrote:
>
> So I upgraded as I was sick of the Pulseaudio vs Jackd battle. Still I
> seem to have the choice of one or the other (but not both) and then I have
> to stop or start jack and all the pain that this brings.
>
>
> Ubuntu Studio Controls and QJackCtl should be able to do this. I can only
> speak for 18.04, but I don't assume this has fundamentally changed in
> 19.10, so you should be able to have Pulseaudio stream through Jack
> automatically without issues.
>
> I use Jack to have a system-wide EQ for all sound output, Pulseaudio and
> Jack direct, this guide has helped me a lot in understanding how QJackCtl
> works and what can be done, you could leave out the EQ part and use it to
> set up Jack/Pulseaudio:
> https://github.com/M4he/Linux/tree/master/JACK/PA_through_JACK
>
>
> On Thursday, 31 October 2019 02:06, Neil McBennett <neil at mcbennett.net>
> wrote:
>
> On top of this the menu system randomly removes whole categories without
> any user intervention.
>
>
> The menu issue has been existing since 16.04, I believe, I don't know what
> exactly causes it and it's rare, but you can just restore them by
> installing "alacarte" and clicking "Restore System Configuration".
>
>
> On Thursday, 31 October 2019 02:06, Neil McBennett <neil at mcbennett.net>
> wrote:
>
> I tried the Gnome desktop thing with Wayland but there the screensaver
> doesn't work and there are no menus meaning you have to memorize the names
> of any programs you may want to run and search for them.
>
>
> This is a matter of taste, but I've run Gnome for a while and wasn't happy
> with it at all, coming from Xfce. The Dashboard feels unintuitive and the
> frequent programs tab didn't work for me. Also, I use Reaper as my DAW and
> it installs multiple different launchers, so with the character limitation,
> I always got "REAPER (x64)...", "REAPER (x64)...", "REAPER (x64)..." and I
> had to guess which launcher I have to start.
>
> Wayland is still a bit unstable at times and I can't tell what system
> configuration/hardware works best at this time. Unfortunately, Gnome with X
> has been very sluggish and a bit laggy in the recent versions, I don't know
> how it is in 19.10.
>
> I think Xfce is an excellent DE for conventional workstation use. If you
> want to try something in-between, you could give KDE a shot. It's also much
> more configurable than Gnome.
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