Re: [LAU] Fwd: [ANN] QjackCtl 0.3.3 (unstable-qt4) released!

From: Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Jun 08 2008 - 23:06:30 EEST

Justin Smith wrote:
>
> On many occasions I run more than one qjackctl with different servers.
>
> I wrote a jack client that connects to multiple jack servers as a
> "bridge". The trick with multiple qjackctls is to use the command
> line, and type "DEFAULT_JACK_SERVER=usb qjackctl&
> DEFAULT_JACK_SERVER=builtin qjackctl", and then hand configure each
> instance to use the proper settings (auto-start should be off, of
> course). Past releases of qjackctl work just fine for this purpose.
> The DEFAULT_JACK_SERVER environment variable is used directly in the
> jack libraries even if a client does not code in any support (there is
> a small chance I have the environment variable wrong, I am pretty sure
> it is DEFAULT_JACK_SERVER, I am using a friend's computer at the
> moment).
>
> I never figured out how to deal with the huge latency and xruns with
> the jack bridge program, so it has not seen the light of public
> release.
>
> Please do not remove this functionality, I find it useful, even with
> the buggyness of bridging between jack servers.
>

omg. anyway it's kind of late for that. you can avoid using this last
qjackctl release, it won't work with this setup anymore

however, i'll be your friend :) and lend this patch to let it work for
you; please test and report

btw, JACK_DEFAULT_SERVER is the variable name.

-- 
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc@email-addr-hidden


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