[mythtv-users] Single Instance Howto?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Jan 8 02:58:45 UTC 2006


Kevin Kuphal wrote:

> John Andersen wrote:
>
>> Is there a way et set mythfrontend to only allow a single instance
>> to be launched on any given machine?
>>
>> Via a comedy of errors I've found on a couple of occasions
>> that more than one instance was running.  I wondered
>> where the memory went.
>> Often after a power failure, KDE will try to re-establish the
>> previously running processes, and that, coupled with my
>> auto-start script left two instances running. 
>
> Change your script not to launch mythfrontend if it is already running

And tell KDE not to restore sessions.

Mike


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