[Ardour-Dev] waveform display for master track

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, torbenh at gmx.de wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 06:34:36PM +0100, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
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>> On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, torbenh at gmx.de wrote:
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>>> now jackless ardour actually IS a weird concept ;) i admit that.
>>> But it would at least be a very good test for the new Port
>>> implemntation.
>>> Needs some thought, where to put the decision which ports to use etc.
>>> But its not a HUGE change.
>>>
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>> But wouldn't it be enough just to let the GUIless ardour work on a separate
>> jack server?
>
> yeah. that might work out also.
> hmmm... but its not so cool anymore ;)
>
> heh.... it might be even cooler:
> we might be even able to jack_snapshot the whole jack graph in this case
> :)
> we have an environment Variable that overrides default server name IIRC.
>

Hepp, and by furthermore using a dummy X server (I'm sure such a thing
exists), and fork() (in libjack) all jack programs connected to
ardour (usually jamin) and then autoconnect the fork's jack
connections to the new jack server, all problems are solved. Easy!