When launched from the menu, freqtweak silently fails

[Emmet Hikory]

Binary package hint: freqtweak

When freqtweak is launched from the menu, it silently fails (although an error message is stored in ~/.xsession-errors). Launching from the command line results in the error message "No good client name or JACK server not running?". This error only happens if a JACK daemon is not already running.

When this error occurs, freqtweak should provide graphical feedback to the user.

To work around this, jackd must be started, either from a command line or with qjackctl, prior to starting freqtweak.

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

From debian bug report:
The newest package automatically starts jackd, so this problem should no
longer happen. Anyone, feel free to reopen and explain why.

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

Wouter, please check the behaviour of the application in question, rather than closing based on other bug report comments. Firstly, that behaviour doesn't work in my Debian system, and secondly, it doesn't work in my Ubuntu system, and thirdly, there is no common history between the Debian and Ubuntu packages since they grew .desktop files (and fourthly, I should really fix that).

[Bhavani Shankar (bhavi)]

hello emmet,

Is this still reproducible in maverick?

Regards

[Raine M. Ekman (raine)]

Yes, freqtweak 0.7.2-4build1 in Maverick starts jackd, both when launched from command line and menu.