On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 16:46 +0530, Ajax John wrote: > Hi, > > I have written a gtk application on my Linux system. > At present I can open or start multiple instances of my application. > how can I modify my code such that at a time only one instance of my > application is running on my system.
there are many ways to achieve single instance applications. one is to use a X selection; another is to use a pipe/lock file; yet another one is to use D-Bus. you can use the unique library, or reuse parts of it: http://github.com/ebassi/unique/tree/master ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list