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Here=E2=80=99s a workarou= nd for Ardour > under KDE on X:https://manual.ardour.org/ardour-configuration/system-spe= cific-setup/kde-plasma-5/=20 I'm afraid you're not up to date: I=C2=A0haven't seen this issue in Plasma= =20 6.x, which has been the latest incarnation for at least 2 years now,=20 neither on my desktop, nor on my ECNL*-Book. I am not trying to convince you to use KDE, I=C2=A0am always a bit irritat= ed=20 when people tell stories, good or bad, about something they don't use=20 themself or that they even haven't tried. No offence meant, but that's=20 not a good base to discuss about things. And by the way: a disks spin down time can be set using "hdparm -S", and= =20 if for some reason that doesn't work, eg the drive not supporting this=20 option, there's always good old chron that can do a job like "ls $DEVICE= =20 >/dev/null" or " fdisk -l=C2=A0> /dev/null" or something similar every 5= =20 Minutes or so, which should keep the drive(s) active. 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Hello,





Ralf Mardorf wrote:

something else that=E2=80=99s=
 pretty annoying. Here=E2=80=99s a workaround for Ardour
under KDE on X: https=
://manual.ardour.org/ardour-configuration/system-specific-setup/kde-plasma=
-5/

I'm afraid you're not up to date: I=C2=A0haven't seen this issue in Plasma 6.x, which has been the latest incarnation for at least 2 years now, neither on my desktop, nor on my ECNL*-Book.=C2=A0

I am not trying to convince you to use KDE, I=C2=A0am always a bit irritated when people tell stories, good or bad, about something they don't use themself or that they even haven't tried. No offence meant, but that's not a good base to discuss about things.

And by the way: a disks spin down time can be set using "hdparm -S", and if for some reason that doesn't work, eg the drive not supporting this option, there's always good old chron that can do a job like "ls $DEVICE >/dev/null" or "=C2=A0fdisk -l<= /span>=C2=A0> /dev/null" or something similar every 5 Minutes or so, which should keep the drive(s) active.



Wolfgang

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