GMetronome is a free/libre software metronome and tempo measurement tool for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
- Tempo range from 30 to 250 BPM
- Customizable accent patterns with three levels of accentuation
- Divisible beats for simple and compound meters
- Predefined patterns for widely used meters and time signatures
- Training function (smoothly increase or decrease tempo)
- Profile support (save/restore settings)
- Build-in synthesizer to customize click sounds
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Support for various audio backends
GMetronome is distributed as compressed source tarball and can be downloaded from our releases page.
To build GMetronome you need a couple of packages:
- GTK (3.24) and Glib (2.58)
- gtkmm (3.24)
- pkgconfig
Use your distributions package manager to install those packages.
GMetronome comes with built-in support for various audio frameworks and sound servers. Depending on the target platform and user requirements, there may occur other dependencies like:
- libpulse (PulseAudio support)
- libasound (native ALSA support on Linux)
- sys/soundcard.h (OSS support on FreeBSD, Linux, ...)
Install those packages according to your needs as well.
After unpacking the source tarball (gmetronome-0.x.x.tar.bz2), you need
to configure the package. If you want to install GMetronome in the default
location (e.g. in /usr/local) with the default audio backends just run the
following command inside the package directory:
$ ./configure
To install GMetronome in a different location or with a different set of audio
backends use the --prefix option and the audio backend switches of the
configure script, e.g.:
$ ./configure --prefix=/my/install/dir --with-oss --without-pulseaudio
All configure options can be shown with ./configure --help.
Since GMetronome uses the NDEBUG macro, it will see a performance benefit if passed to the preprocessor (be aware that this could make possible troubleshooting more difficult):
$ ./configure CPPFLAGS="-DNDEBUG"
After successfully configuring the package you can compile the sources and install the software:
$ make
$ make install
You will need to have write permissions for the installation directories,
especially if you want to install the package with a public prefix
(e.g. /usr/local). In this case run make install using sudo. You
will be asked for the system administrator password to get the necessary write
permissions.
$ sudo make install
Before running GMetronome please make sure, that the shared resources can be
found by the application. This might not be a problem, if you install the
package with the default installation prefix. Otherwise you can prepend the
directory to the environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS. Assuming that your
installation prefix was /my/install/dir type:
$ export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/my/install/dir/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS
Then run GMetronome by
$ /my/install/dir/bin/gmetronome
See INSTALL for further details.
To build the current development version, clone the project's git repository:
$ git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/dqpb/gmetronome.git
Change to the gmetronome directory and call autogen.sh to generate the
makefiles. This requires a working autotools (autoconf, automake) installation
to succeed.
$ cd gmetronome
$ NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
Then run the traditional GNU triplet (configure, make, make install) following the description above.
Please visit our project's issues page to view currently open issues or submit new bug reports.