Kate: one instance only!

[Perry]

Le Sunday 16 August 2009 23:15:20 Clay Weber, vous avez écrit :
> On Sunday 16 August 2009 04:35:38 pm Willy Hamra wrote:
> > 2009/8/16 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
> > > No matter what I do, I cannot get Kate to open new files in an
> > > existing instance. Please, how is this done in KDE 4.x? Thanks.
> >
> > this was discussed a while ago. you need to change file association
> > for texts. there's a parameter when passed to kate, it reuses an
> > existing instance. i'm not on my PC right now, just type "kate --help"
> > in konsole, and see what it is. change the file association
> > accordingly to pass that parameter everytime a file is selected to
> > open with kate :)
>
> adding '--use' works for this

I googled a bit and found: 
<http://awesomelinux.blogspot.com/2009/05/make-kubuntu-904-use-single-kate.html>
I only had time to try the "adding '--use' (it's getting late in my timezone)
It works but I get a message (translated from french) saying:
 ***KDEInit cannot launch "/usr/bin/kate"***, perhaps the cure was given in 
the above link, I'll have to check later.

Also when you open files from within Kate the same instance is used.

Perry

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