Re: [rox-users] Wrappers

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:51:14AM -0500, Jim Knoble wrote:
> Circa 2001-Jul-30 09:28:49 +0100 dixit Stephen Watson:
> 
> : The AppRun for the Gimp wrapper can be changed to
> :   exec gimp-remote -n "$@"
> : whcih first tries to find a running gimp to load it, starting a new one if
> : not found.
> 
> I suspect it should be a little smarter than that, since not all
> versions of gimp support gimp-remote.  Perhaps:
> 
>   if [ -n "`type -p gimp-remote`" ]; then
>     exec gimp-remote -n "$@"
>   else
>     exec gimp "$@"
>   fi

This is a good idea -- I've put the new version on the web:

	http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox_wrappers.php3

It doesn't work quite like the above; if you run the program directly
it will always start a new copy.

Thanks,


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