Re: [Rosegarden-user] a few question

[Alex <Rit...@we...>]

na...@ci... wrote:
> I'm still new to Linux so some of the questions might not be strictly 
> Rosegarden related but I'd be real grateful if you'd help me sort things 
> out.
> 
> 1.
> 
> "export KDEDIRS=/opt/rosegarden:/usr", I enter this in the command line 
> but once I reboot it's effect is gone and rosegarden won't start until I 
> type it again.
Depends on your shell (command line program). Bash executes some 
.bashrc-file, other shells only .profile -> add the line to a file 
.profile (create it, if it does not exist) in your user's home 
directory. Check the settings with echo $KDEDIRS

> 
> 2.
> 
> I run jackd, with the same settings as given in the example (I have 
> SBLive too), but when I start Rosegarden there's still no audio.
Do not add this to any profile-script, try to active the jackd-service. 
It depends on your distribution (Linux Provider's version). SuSE's got 
some system settings within "Runlevel Editor" (YaST), gentoo has a 
command line tool (rc-update)...so jack runs as root -> kernel must have 
that malloc-whatever, otherwise you won't be able to connect to the 
jackd as normal user. See some of the jack-tutorials, 'cause it's really 
distribution-dependend. If nothing else helps, add it to your .profile

> 
> PS: Isn't there something in Linux like batch files in Winodws, where I 
> could enter all these commands with parameters, make an entry to it in 
> the menu and start everything up with one click?
Again: Depends on your distribution and your Desktop. KDE can link shell 
scripts to icons while enlightenment is a bit more tricky. I'd say gnome 
has the same abilities like KDE has. Write some script like:

#!/bin/bash
jackd -a xyz -b zyx &
rosegarden &

Save it as "audio-start.sh", change it's rights to be executable (chmod 
755 audio-start.sh or via context menus) and create some icon, having 
"audio-start.sh" as command.

> 3.
> 
> I tried Fluidsynth and it's fine but I wanted to install Qsynth too, at 
> the end of configure it says fluidsynth library not found. I put it 
> under /opt/fluidsynth. Probably something has to be changed in 
> configure, but I'm not that much of an expert. I looked into it and 
> Ctrl+F fluidsynth gives me the lines where this question is dealt with 
> but I can't make anything out of it.
You moved an installation or you installed it under /opt/...?

> 4.
> 
> Where can I get sfxload?
...depends on your distribution. See the shipped packages (rpm-s, deb-s) 
or emerge (gentoo) something...