A JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit) connection manager extension for Gnome
This extensions aim is to bring a convenient way to manage JACK connections in a daily use. It may not replace QjackCtl or equivalent for fine jack tuning, but will probably avoid launching it for very simple tasks.
- Gnome 3.20/3.22 (other versions untested, but may work from 3.16. Needs metadata.json edition)
- jackd2 + JackDbus
- aconnect (alsa-utils)
The easyest way is to go to https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1138/jackconnect/ and switch to ON. Alternaticely, for a manual install, here are the steps.
- Clone somewhere
git clone https://github.com/fr33z00/GnomeJackConnect
- Copy/move to your local gnome extension folder
mv GnomeJackConnect/[email protected] ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/
- Enable the extension
gnome-shell-extension-tool -e [email protected]
- Finally, restart gnome-shell with Alt+F2 r (Enter)
For required/optionnal software installation, please refer to their respective documentations.
Once installed and enabled, you should get a new menu, as shown in the above screenshot. It offers the 3 sections that you may already know : audio, midi and alsa. Each section shows a routing matrix, with sources on top left and destinations on bottom right. Just click at the intersection of the wires you want to connect/disconnect.
Connections you made will be restored at your next session.
Enjoy!