[mythtv-users] Single Instance Howto?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Jan 8 03:08:59 UTC 2006


Kevin Kuphal wrote:

> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>>
>>> John Andersen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there a way et set mythfrontend to only allow a single instance
>>>> to be launched on any given machine?
>>>>
>>>> Via a comedy of errors I've found on a couple of occasions
>>>> that more than one instance was running.  I wondered
>>>> where the memory went.
>>>> Often after a power failure, KDE will try to re-establish the
>>>> previously running processes, and that, coupled with my
>>>> auto-start script left two instances running. 
>>>
>>> Change your script not to launch mythfrontend if it is already running
>>
>> And tell KDE not to restore sessions.
>
> Or don't use KDE :)

Even better advice.

Mike


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