Re: [Evolution] stopping multiple instances of evolution

["Stephen P. Schaefer" <sschaefer acm org>]

I don't have a code solution for you, but this works for me: I have a
specific workspace where I always run evolution as soon as I log in;
clicking on that pane in the workspace switcher means I want to read
mail now.

    - Stephen

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 20:35 -0800, Jason Morehouse wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I live out of Evolution, but have one issue that drives me nuts.  I work
> on 4 workspace and am often flipping around from one to the other.  I
> forget sometimes if and where evolution is running. If it's already
> running on another workspace when I try an launch it, the second copy
> kind of kind of locks up for about 12 seconds while flashing away in the
> title bar.
>
> Does this annoy anyone else?  Any fixes?
>
> I tried this script, but it doesn't seem to work:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use Gnome2;
> use Gnome2::Wnck;
> Gtk2->init();
>
> # get evo wnck window to unminimize on click
> my ($evo);
> my $screen = Gnome2::Wnck::Screen->get_default();
> $screen->force_update();
> foreach my $line ($screen->get_windows()) {
>     my $stamp = localtime(time);
>     if ($line->get_name =~ /Evolution/) {
>         $evo = $line;
>     }
> }
> if ($evo) {
>     $evo->unminimize($stamp);
>     $evo->get_workspace->activate($stamp);
>     $evo->activate($stamp);
> } else {
>     system('evolution');
> }
>
>
> Thanks,
> -J
>
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