Am 13.03.20 um 13:51 schrieb Tom M.: > Regarding A), it would be worth to run fluidsynth for the current user, > rather than an extra user.
In case anybody is searching for a clean solution. I did so and it works fine. I added the below file to KDE auto-start. Keep in mind that this is not perfect and might need some adjustment. you can test it be starting from the KDE menu. cat ~/.local/share/applications/fluidsynth.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Version=1.0 GenericName=Midi Synthesizer Name=Fluidsynth TryExec=/usr/bin/fluidsynth Exec=/usr/bin/fluidsynth --no-shell --server --audio-driver=pulseaudio --midi-driver=alsa_seq --sample-rate 44100 -o synth.cpu-cores=2 /usr/share/sounds/sf3/FluidR3Mono_GM.sf3 # for debug add --dump remove --no-shell # if you need more midi channels, add --midi-channels= # for less background CPU use add --chorus 0 --reverb 0 # check the soundfont exists Categories=Multimedia;System; StartupNotify=false X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=60 Terminal=false #for debug: true _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev