On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:00:56 +0100, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:35:30AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > >> 2009/10/29 Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > hi rui, hi *! >> > >> > >> > two hosts connected via netjack. local host uses qjackctl. >> > now ssh -X into remote host, start qjackctl and hope for a forwarded >> > window. no luck. all that happens is that the *local* qjackctl window >> > pops up. >> > >> > this doesn't happen with other gui apps. i use several xosviews on >> > several hosts frequently without problems. >> > >> > any guesses as to what might be going on? >> >> guess; Qt is trying to be way too clever. >> >> firefox does sort of the same thing - it registers some kind of >> service handle with the X server, and when starting up on a given >> display, a new firefox looks to see if the service already exists on >> that X server. > > Other guess: your WM trying to be clever. It could recognise > the window of the remote app, think you want to local one and > move that to the current workspace which could result in the > two windows on top of each other. > > Something like that (but harmless) happens in WindowMaker. > When you have an app icon for e.g. qjakctl, then launch it > on a remote machine, the icons 'start by double click' > function doesn't work anymore because wm thinks the app > is already running (you can still start on the icon's > menu). > nope. it is qjackctl itself trying to be clever by going trough x11 property ownership and make sure there can only be one single instance of it up and running. no system-tray nor window manager in between, it's plain xlib trickery :) cheers -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
