[ale] Multiple instances of Evolution

Rich Faulkner rfaulkner at 34thprs.org
Wed Sep 8 09:53:58 EDT 2010


Ah.  That makes sense.  Annoying but it makes sense...thanks!



On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 03:31 -0400, Tim Watts wrote:
> You probably just had multiple windows open on the same process.
> Evolution does that. Each invocation of 'evolution' will create a new
> window if the process is already running.
> 
> That /could/ be useful if it allowed you to open it to a particular view
> (e.g. calendar). But it doesn't as far as I can see so it seems pretty
> pointless to me. I'd call that a bug.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 21:57 -0400, Richard Faulkner wrote:
> > Is Evolution suppose to support opening multiple instances of the
> > application?  Not that I want it too but I ran into a situation where
> > I "lost" my minimized processes in the lower panel on my build tonight
> > (kernel: 2.6.32.21-166.fc12.i686) and had to do an Alt+Tab to toggle
> > my apps.  Adding an object to the panel appeared to "refresh" it and
> > *boom* my apps reappeared...but in doing that I found that I had THREE
> > instances of Evolution running. 
> > 
> > Am I just being a noob or is that buggy behavior?  (Okay...I'm being
> > at least a partial noob...)  : )
> > 
> > Rich in Lilburn 
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