[LAU] Connect to jackd with a different user?

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Wed Dec 12 08:09:53 UTC 2012


On 12/11/2012 02:11 PM, Harry van Haaren wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Grant <emailgrant at gmail.com
> <mailto:emailgrant at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Is this something that might be integrated into a jack release?
>       Would it be worth filing a bug?
>
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand exactly what you're asking.
> <jokes> And no I don't see it being integrated </jokes>
>
> Running JACK as a system wide daemon has downsides, and is a pretty
> niche use case. I don't
> see it becoming the standard as GStreamer / Phonon / PulseAudio and a
> variety of other frameworks
> already try to run a daemonized audio server. And I remove all of them
> from my installs when I can :)
>
> Since its only advanced users that will ever want to do this, I think
> the config files fix above is fine.
> My two cents, -Harry

Well, if you automatically have every user a member of the audio group, 
can't they all use JACK?

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