Is there a way to have applications that are opening ignore subsequent > requests to open?Sure. Change the icon to run a wrapper shell script which checks first to see if the binary's running. The script would grep the process table: #!/bin/sh # if [ "$(/bin/ps fax | /bin/grep '/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox')" ]; then exit 1 else /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox & exit 0 fi
Thanks. I just tried this at home, and it seems to work (I'm using Gnome, but I'm sure that this will work on the KDE set up I have at work.) The application starts to open several windows, but then all of them but the first one close.
Mark