Re: How to detect already running application...

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 09:00 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> There are a number of hacks to do this.  gnome-volume-manager uses the
> clipboard.  NetworkManager uses D-Bus.  I'm not sure what g-edit uses,
> perhaps bonobo.  Future looking D-Bus is the way to go.  You basically
> grab a name and when your app comes up a second time it will get an
> error when trying to grab the name again.  It can then send messages to
> the first instance to tell it what to do.

The canonical X way to ensure a singleton is to use a manager selection,
as defined in the ICCCM, section 2.8. 
http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-2.html#s-2.8


Matthias