QjackCtl - JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface ----------------------------------------------------- QjackCtl is a simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server (http://jackaudio.org), for the Linux Audio infrastructure. Written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit for X11, most exclusively using Qt Designer. Provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK server parameters, which are properly saved between sessions, and a way control of the status of the audio server. With time, this primordial interface has become richer by including a enhanced patchbay and connection control features. Homepage: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Requirements ------------ The software requirements for build and runtime are listed as follows: Mandatory: - Qt4 (core, gui, xml), C++ class library and tools for crossplatform development and internationalization http://www.trolltech.org/products/qt/ - JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org/ Optional (opted-in at build time): - ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ Installation ------------ The installation procedure follows the standard for source distributions: ./configure [--prefix=/usr/local] make and optionally as root: make install This procedure will end installing the following couple of files: ${prefix}/bin/qjackctl ${prefix}/share/pixmaps/qjackctl.png ${prefix}/share/applications/qjackctl.desktop Just launch ${prefix}/bin/qjackctl and you're off (hopefully). If you're checking out from CVS, you'll have to prepare the configure script just before you proceed with the above instructions: make -f Makefile.cvs Configuration ------------- QjackCtl holds its settings and configuration state per user, in a file located as $HOME/.config/rncbc.org/QjackCtl.conf . Normally, there's no need to edit this file, as it is recreated and rewritten everytime qjackctl is run. Bugs ---- Probably plenty still, but QjackCtl it's now considered on beta stage already. It has been locally tested since JACK release 0.98.0, on SuSE 9.1, Mandrake 10.0 and Fedora Core 1, with custom 2.4 kernels with low-latency, preemptible and capabilities enabling patches. As for 2.6 kernels, the capabilities patch may also apply but the emergence of the Realtime Linux Security Module (LSM) and Ingo Molnar's Realtime Preemption kernel patch it's being now recommended for your taking benefit of the realtime and low-latency audio pleasure JACK can give. Support ------- QjackCtl is open source free software. For bug reports, feature requests, discussion forums, mailling lists, or any other matter related to the development of this piece of software, please use the Sourceforge project page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl). You can also find timely and closer contact information on my personal web site (http://www.rncbc.org). Acknowledgments --------------- QjackCtl's user interface layout (and the whole idea for that matter) was partially borrowed from origoinal Lawrie Abbott's jacko project, which was taken from wxWindow/Python into the Qt/C++ arena. Since 2003-08-06, qjackctl has been included in the awesome Planet CCRMA (http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/) software collection. Thanks a lot Fernando! Here are some people who helped this project in one way or another, and in fair and strict alphabetic order: Alexandre Prokoudine Kasper Souren Andreas Persson Kjetil Matheussen Austin Acton Ken Ellinwood Ben Powers Lawrie Abbott Chris Cannam Lee Revell Dan Nigrin Lucas Brasilino Dave Moore Marc-Olivier Barre Dave Phillips Mark Knecht Dirk Jagdmann Matthias Nagorni Dominic Sacre Melanie Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano Nedko Ardaunov Filipe Tomas Orm Finnendahl Florian Schmidt Paul Davis Fons Adriaensen Robert Jonsson Geoff Beasley Sampo Savolainen Jack O'Quin Stephane Letz Jacob Meuser Steve Harris Jesse Chappell Taybin Rutkin Joachim Deguara Wilfried Huss Jussi Laako Wolfgang Woehl Karsten Wiese A special mention should go to the translators of QjackCtl (see TRANSLATORS). Thanks to you all. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc@rncbc.org