multiple local X logins by same user
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 17:22:09 UTC 2008
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>
> Erm? Every app that supports running two simultaneous independent
> instances (which is to say, 90% or more of all non-trivial apps) won't
> even notice they aren't in the same X session. It's only "crazy" for
> apps that go ridiculously out of their way to make sure there is only
> ever one instance running on a machine. In fact, *other* than Firefox I
> can't think of a single program that has this problem.
It probably does give an efficiency boost to have the running app open a
new window (although if that's what you wanted, you probably would have
told it to open a new window instead of starting a new instance...). I
suppose it's really for the automated startup when you click a link
embedded in some other app though. But while it is going ridiculously
out of it's way, you'd think it could check to see if the new invocation
you want is running on the same $DISPLAY as the running instance or not.
> (^2 I will grant that "last state wins" may be unacceptable for things
> like web browser history, which should be not only lossless but possibly
> shared, but there are already good solutions for that (usually called
> "databases"), and Firefox *is* using SQL these days...)
Any number of apps have to deal with shared files, sometimes over networks.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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