Re: Opening multiple instances of balsa

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 05/02/2003, Jacob Perkins wrote:
> Epiphany, Galeon, and Gedit do it using bonobo servers. I believe 
> there is also a GEP regarding this called Bonobo Unique Application. 
> I think the basic idea is that the bonobo server just keeps track of 
> whether there are running instances using a factory. In the above 
> cases, it sends the commands to those instances, but for balsa it 
> should probably just raise the window.

That would be a good fix for the common X-server case.  But I often run 
Balsa over ssh, and occasionally by mistake start a session when 
there's still one running on the local display.  Is there any way for 
those sessions to be coordinated gracefully?

Peter