On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:58:31PM +0200, Inge Thorin Eidsaether said > > Hi all! > > Does anyone have an idea what command line arguments or switches to > pass to an MDI application, so that, when a running instance of the > application exists in system memory, a new one isn't spawned? > > I believe that kind of arguments to be local to the application, and > not global in X, but feel free to correct me...
It is application-specific. > Specifically, I use gFTP to open a remote site, and Bluefish to edit > web documents. When called from gFTP to edit a document, the above > desired effect is produced, but that is obviously due to the following > settings in Bluefish: > > Edit > Preferences > Files: [x] Open files in already running bluefish > window > > However, focus is not returned to the editor, and when I manually > switch to it, the new document tab is not brought to the front. I > cannot find any window manager settings (sawfish) to control this > behavior, although I think that at least the first step has to do with > window management. Fixing this would make editing a little smoother. It's not really a window manager issue. It sounds like gftp is just telling bluefish to open a file, with no WM interaction at all. It *is* possible for bluefish to request the focus and to be raised to the top, but it would require modifications to bluefish, afaik. Maybe file a wishlist bug? Sawfish is scriptable in lisp, of course, so you *could* get gftp to call a wrapper script that raises and focuses the bluefish window, then tells it to open a file... > I use perlpanel as a taskbar, by the way. Maybe that causes the focus > problems? > > Now I don't mind Bluefish, but I would like to try other editors for > their features (speed, simplicity, etc.), but so far no one opens in > the desired way. I don't think any of them will... -- Words of the day: enigma HAMASMOIS PLO War Crimes wire transfer arrangements
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