[Jaunty] Launching similar apps from panel icons

[Dotan Cohen]

> 1. I have two icons for SeaMonkey, one for SM 2.0b1pre and one for SM
> 1.1.6. If I am running SM 2.0b1pre
> (/home/<user>/SeaMonkey2/seamonkey/seamonkey -mail -browser) and click
> the SM 1.1.6 icon (/home/<user>/seamonkey/seamonkey), a new browser
> window is opened for SM 2.0b1pre, not SM 1.1.6. However, If I use
> nautilus, or use the cli to launch SM 1.1.6 will come up. I have the
> full paths for the applications in the panel icons.
>

Regarding the Mozilla apps, if they are using the same profile you
might need to launch them with the -no-remote flag.

> 2. Same thing now happens with OpenOffice.org; I have an icon for OOo
> 3.1.0 (/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice), and one for 3.2(dev). If I
> have OOo 3.1.0 open and click the icon for OOo 3.2
> (/opt/ooo-dev3/program/soffice), I get another window of OOo 3.1 *not* a
> launch of OOo 3.2. Again, full paths to the apps are in the icon
> commands, and again, if the second similar app is launched from nautilus
> or the cli, the second app comes up just fine.
>

Sounds like the polarity of the flux capacitor is reversed.

> 3. Same for Thunderbird (I have a dev version as well).
>

As with Seamonkey, you may need the -no-remote flag if they are using
the same profile.

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