Lock file location on Linux / packaging

[Rene_vanPaassen]

Under Linux, qnext apparently creates a lock file in the directory where the qnext software is located. All other user data is kept in a directory in the user home directory. This means that the directory with qnext software should be writable by all users (bad idea), or each user should have his own copy of the software (silly waste of disk space).

Can the lock file also be somewhere else (e.g. a per-user lock in /tmp), so that it becomes possible to install the software in a central place (typically /usr/local/lib/qnext or /usr/lib/qnext), so that the same software install is shared between different users. Incidentally, this makes it also feasible to package qnext in rpm and deb packages.

Alternatively, if running multiple qnext processes on the same computer is not possible (why not?), create the lock in a shared location.

Greetings,

René