Re: Restricting konqueror to single instance
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 06:57 pm, csj@mindgate.net wrote:
> I decided to map konqueror to one of the extra buttons in my
> so-called "multimedia" keyboard. The problem is that if I press
> the button too long several instances of konqueror are
> started. Is there an option I can pass to konqueror or a config
> file setting that I can set that will prevent one konqueror
> session from starting if one is already running. I'm thinking of
> something like a "--server" option that will force the program to
> just connect to an existing session.
Just a comment: I have just the opposite desire in Mozilla -- I want to
be able to start separate instances. My problem is that I may have as
many as 150 Mozilla tabs or Windows open at any time. *When* (not if)
Mozilla crashes, I lose all those pages, some of which may be open wiki
(TWiki) edit windows.
There are some workarounds -- you can define additional Mozilla profiles
and then each is a separate instance, and there is at least one Mozilla
manager that attempts to remember the status (to some degree) of each
open window so you can more easily recover after a crash. (I haven't
quite got either of these working -- the manager that I know about
requires Java, and I'm trying to puzzle out which files to copy to all
profiles so as to preserve my preferences -- doesn't quite work as
documented.)
Anyway, my real point here is that if konqueror goes in one direction to
support a way of minimizing instances, they should not go too far --
there should be a user friendly way to create multiple instances.
Randy Kramer
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