David Shochat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:08:33 -0500:
> Rick Barry wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'd like to run 2 separate instances of PAN 0.132 in Ubuntu 8.04.1. Is >> this possible? If so, how would I achieve this? >> >> > I think all you'd have to do would be to set the environment variable > PAN_HOME to something other than $HOME/.pan2 for the second instance. > For example, you could set it to $HOME/.pan2.2 and the 2nd instance > would use ~/.pan2.2 for its database. To make it more convenient, you > could write a 2-line script that sets PAN_HOME to the non-standard value > and then runs pan. You would then just use that script to launch the 2nd > instance. You could have 2 panel launchers, with one just launching pan > normally and the other running the script. Well posted. =:^) That's actually the way I have pan setup here, with of course some individual variance in detail. I have three instances, pan.bin (binaries), pan.text and pan.test (for browsing around, since pan keeps some info about groups you've been to even after you delete them, this way I can easily blow that away without blowing away my regular subscribed groups). Each instance is set to a subdir of ~/pan/ (I don't like hidden dirs, so not .pan), ~/pan/text, ~/pan/bin, etc. For config files that are the same across all three instances, I have a ~/pan/globals as well, with symlinks from the individual instance dirs as appropriate. I thus have a common scorefile and accels.txt keyboard accel mapping. My starter scripts are pan.bin, pan.text, etc, with a kmenu entry for each, and a khotkeys entry for those, so I can invoke my main instances with just a couple keystrokes. (I run pan.test seldom enough that it's better run from the launcher dialog.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
