Enable ALSA device monitoring by default

Signed-off-by: Christopher Arndt <[email protected]>

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ ChangeLog
 ------------------
 
 * Detect changes in connected ALSA devices and enable/disable preset,
-  which use these devices in the menu (behaviour disabled by defult).
-* Added command line option ``-a``, ``--alsa-monitor`` to explicitly
-  turn on ALSA device monitoring and filtering.
+  which use these devices in the menu.
+* Added command line option ``-a``, ``--no-alsa-monitor`` to disable
+  ALSA device monitoring and filtering.
 * Made some logging improvements.
 
 

README.md

@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ between different audio setups with just two mouse clicks.
 Menu entries for presets, which refer to ALSA devices currently not available
 (e.g. those provided by USB interfaces, which are currently un-plugged), will
 be deactivated. The application will detect changes in the sound device
-configuration via udev and update the menu accordingly.
+configuration via udev and update the menu accordingly (this behaviour can
+be disabled via a command line option).
 
 When you hover with the mouse pointer over the systray icon and JACK is
 running, a tooltip will show you the name of the active preset (if known), the

jackselect/jackselect.py

@@ -431,8 +431,8 @@ def main(args=None):
     from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
 
     ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__.splitlines()[0])
-    ap.add_argument('-a', '--alsa-monitor', action="store_true",
-                    help="Enable ALSA device monitoring and filtering.")
+    ap.add_argument('-a', '--no-alsa-monitor', action="store_true",
+                    help="Disable ALSA device monitoring and filtering.")
     ap.add_argument('-d', '--default', action="store_true",
                     help="Activate default preset.")
     ap.add_argument('-v', '--verbose', action="store_true",
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ def main(args=None):
             log.debug("Opening menu...")
             client.OpenMenu()
     except dbus.DBusException:
-        JackSelectApp(bus, monitor_devices=args.alsa_monitor)
+        JackSelectApp(bus, monitor_devices=not args.no_alsa_monitor)
         try:
             return Gtk.main()
         except KeyboardInterrupt: