On 12-Dec-2001 Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I asked about this a while back, but got no answer. Maybe someone > now knows why Blackbox allows several instanses of Opera (the web > browser) as long as each instance is opened on different desktops? > > For instance, if I click on a link in my mailer an Opera instance is > opened even though another instance of Opera is running on another > desktop. In other WM's a click on an e-mail link switches to the > desktop where Opera is already running opening a window with the > link content, while in Blackbox one is opened on the current > desktop. > > I know for a fact that Opera is not designed to allow several > instances of itself. So why is Blackbox allowing it for this > application while other WM's I have tried this on (KDE, Gnome, IceWM > and XFce) don't? >
That is not the wm's job. If the app wants to only allow one instance it can handle that. Switching workspaces (desktops) is even worse behaviour.
