[mythtv-users] Single Instance Howto?

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Sun Jan 8 03:01:57 UTC 2006


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 :)

Kevin


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