[ale] multiple program launches with Evolution

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 23:08:07 EST 2007


Write a script that checks for a running pid and goes from there.

On 1/24/07, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> One thing that bugs me about Evolution (the mail/calendar app) is that
> if it is running and you click the panel icon it loads a second copy (or
> at least you have two open windows running the application).  This
> behavior doesn't happen with Firefox, as FF seems to be smart about
> detecting if you are launching the app or just need a new window.  Does
> anyone know of a way to keep Evolution from launching multiple
> instances, when really all you want is for it to bring the minimized
> instance (that I mistakenly failed to realize was running) into the
> foreground.
>
> Thx,
>
> -Jim P.


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