Re: [gtk-list] Detecting multiple application instances

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Geert Bevin wrote:
> running for a particular user (in a specific gnome session) and make the
> first instance open up a new window. This behaviour is needed since
> there is communication and shared data between the windows. It's a small
> filemanager and so the commands sometimes originate from one window to
> perform a certain action in another one.
> 

Pick your favorite Unix book, and read what it has to say about IPC
(pipes, sockets, signals, shared memory, all the usual options).

Havoc