Re: Forking processes?
Thanks for your reply - unfortunately I am well aware of and enjoying
the feature that it is sufficient to click only once except when opening
a file after single clicking through the menu. This latter action,
however, works fine.
BTW, I wrote down the wrong KDE version number - I am running 2.1.2, but
the behavior was already there in 2.1.1 and I believe in an earlier
version too. Strangely, right after installing 2.1.2. it was *not* there
for the first few hours of using KDE. Maybe after the first reboot or
even during the first session it started to happen again. I now recall
my initial relief that it seemed to be gone.
If there is something I can do to track where the behavior comes from,
e.g., through some debugging procedure, I would be happy to contribute.
Greetings / Schönen Gruss
Andreas
Jens Benecke wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:47:43PM +0200, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote:
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> > Hi all, I'm running KDE 2.1.1 debs on a potato (2.2.3) machine. What can
> > I do to stop the following behavior: Whenever I start a program with the
> > GUI (and not from bash) I get two, seldom even three icons on the
> > external taskbar that indicate that the app is loading, with I presume as
> > many instances of the program starting. One of the two or three survives
> > and becomse the program, the others processes die. I find it annoying and
> > it takes more time for programs to become available for use at startup.
>
> My guess is that you haven't yet got used to the fact that (other than e.g.
> Windows) KDE by default doesn't require a double click to start a program.
>
> If you click on something twice, it will be started twice. Or rather, as
> most programs detect duplicates of themselves, they will start, but then
> exit as soon as they detect this.
>
> So what you are seeing is _probably_ due to what you are doing. Your
> computer is taking your actions literally.
>
> Just my guess, however. There might really be a bug if you don't double
> click.
>
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> Jens Benecke
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