-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 14:36, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > Hello, > > I am on Etch and using fluxbox mainly to manage windows. I use mutt > for email. I start it with a key command. > > When I get many x-sessions and programs running at once, often mutt is > running somewhere and I don't know it, so I do the mutt key command > and start a 2nd mutt, then sometimes a third. > > Is there a script I could make that I could use to start mutt, and if > mutt were already running, then it could just take me to the already- > running instance of it, instead of starting a new mutt? > > Thanks for any help. > > I know some Python if it could be done in there. But I suspect I need > a bash script? > > I didn't see a mutt option that would accomplish this. > > Thank you for any help.
I think I'd write a bash script to grep thru ps(1) and refuse to start a new instance if a mutt instance is already running. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHp4XZS9HxQb37XmcRAmYiAKCYwtyEtXVEqQIdvnb2dFVvaAPuCQCeLMIV K4OHiexEKJMOV9rmDHA0P3k= =vyVz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
