Re: Opening an app launches four instances of it

Mike Garfias writes:

> I'd start with running strace on the app as it loads up.

Thanks, Mike. Can you please tell me how that's done?

Siri Amrit

> Siri Amrit Kaur spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
>> 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.


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