Paul Davis wrote: > 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". well, i can put there an explicit command line option, say `qjackctl -X` that will turn off the X11 display uniqueness check. additionally, i can make it user configurable through the setup dialog, as usual what else? -- 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
