Arch Linux

Thanks, MajorTom and speps, but I supposed I should go on record as not being in favor of these shortcuts. The reason is that they obscure the fact that you're using a particular DSSI host to load the plugin. Imagine a novice user starting up jack-keyboard and your /usr/bin/whysynth below, and wondering why they won't talk to each other, and 'man whysynth' doesn't return anything -- frustrating.

Plus, as you've show below, this sort of thing is incredibly easy for the user to create themselves. Personally, I'd just put the following in my .profile:

alias whysynth='DSSI_PATH={$DSSI_PATH:-/usr/lib/dssi} ghostess whysynth.so'

I second that request. Similar to hexter, create a file /usr/bin/whysynth

#!/bin/bash

export DSSI_PATH=/usr/lib/dssi
exec jack-dssi-host whysynth.so

@smbolton

Hi, nice work. Can u also provide a whysynth starter like the xsynth-dssi one? I mean
wget -O - "http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xsynth-dssi/xsynth-dssi/xsynth-dssi" | sed "s_xsynth-dssi_whysynth_" > whysynth

Thanks