How do I prevent opening multiple instances of the gimp

dswissmiss · Guru Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 498 Location: New York

Hi,

Both rox and GQview will open multiple instances of the gimp if I klick on more than one picture file to edit. How do I prevent this from happening?

I'm using flux if that helps

EDIT: ok, rox also opens multiple instances of gqview (although i don't mind that so much), so i'm guessing its something related to fluxbox?

Thank you,
Dswissmiss

InfinityX · Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 385

Use the gimp-remote program, it'll open pictures in any current GIMP session or open a new one if one doesn't exist.

dswissmiss · Guru Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 498 Location: New York

Typing in gimp-remote in aterm doesn't do anything, and I can't find it under emerge...how do I get it?

btw, is your avatar the fish from american dad?

Thanx
Dswissmiss

taveren · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject:

You'll want something more like /usr/bin/gimp-remote-2.1. I have the following in my gqview options under editors:

MagnusBerg · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:19 pm Post subject:

dswissmiss · Guru Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 498 Location: New York

Got it!

Thanx guys.