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gerardo
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Posts: 228
Location: Belgium
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 Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject: Hint (howto): avoid opening multiple instances of Evolution |
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I'm using mail-notification to check for new mail.
It works fine, but everytime I click the icon evolution starts up yet again.
To avoid this, I made the following script
~/.evolution/launch_evolution
| Code: | #!/bin/bash
WINTITLE=" - Evolution" # Main Evolution window has this in titlebar
PROGNAME="evolution" # This is the name of the binary for Evolution
# Use wmctrl to list all windows, count how many contain WINTITLE,
# and test if that count is non-zero:
if [ `wmctrl -l | grep -c "$WINTITLE"` != 0 ]
then
wmctrl -a "$WINTITLE" # If it exists, bring Evolution window to front
sleep 1
xsendkeycode 75 1; xsendkeycode 75 0 # Send F9 to do a Send/Receive
else
$PROGNAME "$@" & # Otherwise, just launch Evolution
sleep 2
xsendkeycode 75 1; xsendkeycode 75 0 # Send F9 to do a Send/Receive
fi
exit 0
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The wmctrl is part of x11-misc/wmctrl.
The xsendkeycode is part of x11-misc/lineakd. The 75 is the F9 key, used for Send/Receive in Evolution.
To determine your keycode, use xev (from x11-apps/xev)
Do not forget to make this file executable. (chmod +x filename)
Now open Menu System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications
Change in tab internet the mail-reader to the filename you used (in my case ~/.evolution/launch_evolution)
If you click the mail-notification icon now, the current open Evolution is activated rather than a new version is opened.
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mark_alec
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