From: Douglas B. <dou...@ca...> - 2014-07-31 17:53:56
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On 31/07/14 14:33, paul womack wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> There already exists a "lock icon". Officially it is to indicate that >> someone else is using the tree, but on a system only used by one person you >> see it when Gramps crashes and did not shut down properly. > Or if you're using a big, multi screen desktop and start up a second instance. > > BugBear (who may have done that...) > On an OS that allows multiple workspaces you can start multiple instances of gramps on separate workspaces and open a (different) family tree on each. As you switch from one workspace to another you see that the tree on the last workspace gets locked (as are the trees on all the workspaces other than the current one). This feature is more of a curiosity than anything else, but on rare occasions it can be useful for comparing two trees. Doug |