Re: Parallel instances of grc on Linux

Hi Marcus,

well, I try your way and I will report if I was successful, or not.
Thank you for the hint about the new variable.

Now, I go to bed and my computer compiles the new warm 3.9.0 from source :-)

Thank you!

Tom

On 17.01.21 22:38, Marcus Müller wrote:
> yep!
>
> Seeing that you can install these separately, you definitely are setting the PYTHONPATH
> environment variabl so that either version is found; do the same for GRC_BLOCKS_PATH, so
> that the two block libraries don't interfere, if you haven't already.
>
> Then: GNU Radio 3.9 respects a new environment variable:
> GR_PREFS_PATH, which defines where GNU Radio (and through that, GRC) look for
> configuration. And since GRC saves the opened files in that configuration (at least if my
> memory serves me well), that would solve this issue.
>
> Best regards,
> Marcus
>
> On 17.01.21 22:32, Tom Breyer wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I installed 3.8.2 and 3.9.0RC0 on my system (Debian 11 testing).
>>
>> Both instances are running well but I want to distinguish/separate the
>> files which are opened when I start GRC. At the moment 3.8.2 is opening
>> file a + b and when I start 3.9.0, the same files are opened. Instead of
>> this I want 3.9.0 to open its files c + d (for example).
>>
>> Is there a command line option available to determine a "working space"
>> or directory?
>>
>> Thanks for reading.
>>
>> Tom, DJ6TB
>>
>>