multiple session protection

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. running a second galaxium process
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

As in gajim, it would be useful if a pop-up warns that an instance of
galaxium is aleady running, and asks the user to confirm or abort the
second instance.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
(you can run the "diagnose" script in the root directory of the Galaxium
sources to get a detailed report)

v0.8-svn, 2.6.25.9-2-fl.smp.gcc4.1.x86.i686 in Gnome

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by 3er...@gmail.com on 22 Jul 2008 at 10:52

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Yes, personally I think we should only allow one instance of Galaxium per 
appName.
For usual use the appName is simply Galaxium but when running from MonoDevelop 
for
example it is set to GalaxiumDebug.

I can't think of any reason to have multiple instances of Galaxium (apart from
developing as mentioned above) but if someone did want that for some reason they
could simply use a different appName (--appName=Whatever) to use a separate
configuration etc, much like Firefox uses 'profiles'.

Original comment by paulburt...@gmail.com on 22 Jul 2008 at 3:19

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Milestone-0.8, Priority-High
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium

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Also, as with Gajim, Galaxium can learn to handle certain kinds of URI's 
provided on
the command-line... that would allow opening for example a chat window or an add
contact dialog just by clicking the link in a browser... I don't know about 
other
protocols, but XMPP endorses such functionality... actually it's a requirement 
for a
full protocol compliance.

Original comment by Zarevucky.Jiri on 9 Feb 2009 at 3:27

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r1226 adds instance detection and shows a warning message (+ tells the user how 
to
start a new instance with another config)

Original comment by ben.motm...@gmail.com on 10 Feb 2009 at 11:37

• Changed state: Fixed

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I've posted the URI handling as an enhancement request (issue 340).

Original comment by Zarevucky.Jiri on 10 Feb 2009 at 11:49