[LAU] Ardour4 and named jack?

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 06:30:17PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
 
> The "named server" option requires that an environment variable be set in
> the environment of every client that wants to use a server started with
> this option.

This is simply *not true*. 

The server name is an optional parameter for jack_open().
All my own apps that use Jack have a command line option
to select a server. And any dialog used to configure an
app's  audio interface can have a field offering the same
choice (with 'default' or an empty string as the default).

Ciao,

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