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Comment 8 for bug 334680

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RomD (romd) wrote :

I requested this feature ages ago in the IRC channel.

If you don't mind compiling gnome-do yourself, you just have to remove
"Services.System.EnsureSingleApplicationInstance ()" in "Do.cs"
and you can launch multiple instances by prepending "DISPLAY=:0.x" with x being your (zero-indexed) monitor.

As you can read here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/do/+bug/343575 , the developers aren't very happy with this solution, but I can assure you that I have been running this setup with three gnome-do and docky instances for a couple of months now and I haven't experienced a single crash since then.

I wish the devs would just add a simple command line parameter to disable the instance checking, so we don't have to compile it ourselves every time there's an update. People who use it would have to do it on their own risk, so I don't see the problem.

Some related bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/do/+bug/343575
https://bugs.launchpad.net/do/+bug/343276