Re: Opening an app launches four instances of it

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Author: Paul Dickson
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Opening an app launches four instances of it
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:35:31 -0500, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:

> 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.


Check your X config files. You might have the mouse added twice, via
separate devices.

    -Paul
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