Launching similar apps from CLI - was Re: [Jaunty] Launching similar apps from panel icons

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On 05/09/2009 11:33 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> 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.

Went back an revisited this one... I owe you a beer. I put the
'-no-remote' flag in the icon launcher command on both and they both now
start properly in parallel - both from the CLI and from the icons. I'll
still need to dig into it a little deeper as I've never had to do this
in the past. Could be the latest nightly on SeaMonkey 2.0b1pre made some
changes...

> 
>> 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. 

Still haven't got this one figured out (yet).

Thanks again for the pointer on trying '-no-remote'.