Re: [LAU] limits.conf nice rtprio

The fact that jackd has a --foobar option does not mean that a GUI front
end for jackd should expose it. The developers of JACK were/are
hackers/tinkerers and were egged on by other hackers/tinkerers to make as
many things possible as we could. This might be good for hackers/tinkerers
but it doesn't make it good for most users.

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Tim <termtech@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

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>
> On 08/17/2017 01:59 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
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>> When you've spent years dealing with people screwing up their JACK
>> installations/configurations by messing with parameters which were never
>> really meant to be exposed to users, you will definitely be "Advanced".
>>
>
> Ah, you want the "not nice" setting.
>
> Tim.
>
>
>> Maybe there are other ways to get there.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Will Godfrey <
>> willgodfrey@email-addr-hidden <mailto:willgodfrey@email-addr-hidden>> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:05:46 -0400
>> Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden
>> <mailto:paul@email-addr-hidden>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Jaromír Mikeš
>> <mira.mikes@email-addr-hidden <mailto:mira.mikes@email-addr-hidden>>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > ​
>> > > What about my 2nd question?
>> > > In qjackctrl Settings -> Advanced ... there is a "Priority"
>> option ...
>> > > It corresponds to -P cli option
>> > > For what is it good and how it should be used?
>> > >
>> >
>> > ​It's under "Advanced". That means ... if you don't know what it
>> does,
>> > don't use it, or adjust it. ​
>>
>> I find that response surprising, unhelpful and quite wrong.
>>
>> How can anyone discover whether they need to use a feature if nobody
>> will tell
>> them what it does?
>> How does one become 'advanced'?
>>
>> --
>> Will J Godfrey
>> http://www.musically.me.uk
>> Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
>> Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
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