[LAU] killling zombie jack

[Neil C Smith]

Hi,

On 23 October 2015 at 10:26, Kaza Kore <dj_kaza at hotmail.com> wrote:
> And that doesn't seem right! I start any other Jack application I have
> without the Jack server running and I just get no playback! Jack in no way
> ever starts itself in my experience. (Mind I haven't played with Renoise
> since 2.x) but it definitely seems Renoise must be asking it to start, which
> sounds possibly like part of the dbus protocol but I'm in no way sure

There's a flag in the Jack API that an application can pass to control
automatic starting of the server if it isn't running.  It's not
related to dbus at all.  I remember experimenting with this a while
ago and having difficulty getting it to pick the right configuration.

http://jackaudio.org/api/group__ClientFunctions.html#gabbd2041bca191943b6ef29a991a131c5
http://jackaudio.org/api/types_8h.html#a396617de2ef101891c51346f408a375e

>From the docs it looks like there's an environment variable that can
override Renoise's default behaviour.

Best wishes,

Neil


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