[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Opening an xml downloaded from internet opens new instance of Geany (#1619)

[Jiří Techet]

> What about having Geany not open a new instance when it's called with no files under OSX, but just do as if files were passed (but none are), so activating the main window and stuff?

I'm not sure I understand - do you mean somehow forwarding the stuff to the main instance from the script? I don't know how to do that - from OS X perspective a new process was successfully started - and it's the script - so when the script terminates the process is dead from the OS X perspective and it won't receive the callback.

The problem is that OS X seems to do two different things when launching applications - when it's a native application, it won't launch a new instance of it from the bundle and there must be something within the application which makes new instances. But when it starts a script and probably also some command-line application too, it launches it every time. And we need the script because all the simulated GTK environment has to be set up there.

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