Opening an app launches four instances of it

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Author: Siri Amrit Kaur
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Opening an app launches four instances of it
I just got Slackware 10.1 installed yesterday. I installed some games that I
always add after installing, like Maelstrom and LBreakout2. I had to install
a bunch of SDL libraries with them. I installed them from /tmp as root.

Here's the wierd part:

When I launch one of these games, it opens up fine, but in the taskbar I see
another instance of it trying to open, as well. It eventually times out, but
the first instance stays and plays normally. If I open a terminal and run
"ps -aux | more" I see four instances of the game! They have consecutive PID
numbers.

I remember this was a problem with Slack 9.2 and Maelstrom. It didn't happen
in 10.0. Does anybody know why this is happening, or how I can learn what's
going on?

Thanks!

Siri Amrit
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