On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:43 PM, <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 03:31:24PM +0000, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > >> first ask why you want more than one qjackctl instance running? > > I'm routinely running audio systems consisting of more than > one machine, with usually all but one headless. And occasionally > I want to manually verify/modify jack connections on the remote > machines. So running 'ssh -X somehost qjacktl' is expected to > work, as it should for any X11 app, and must not depend on > conditions that don't matter. although in theory i agree with you fons, i note that firefox and a few others from the mozilla stable have realized that with "heavyweight" X apps, this is not *always* true. i certainly think that for an app of qjackctl's size/nature, checking to see if its already running *on the JACK host* can make sense, but i don't see how it makes sense to ask the same question about a display server. what is the scope of the resources that qjc has implicit control over? the audio interface and/or jack server on a given host. what is the scope of the resources that the X server has implicit control over? itself and the screen it controls. given that these are not linked, and qjc is a lightweight application, running N or more on the same X server seems to me to be something that should "just work". _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
