[Geany] Per-workspace instance of Geany

[Randy Kramer]

On Tuesday 25 January 2011 06:57:48 pm Lex Trotman wrote:
> 2011/1/26 Krzysztof Żelechowski <giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl>:
> > Dnia wtorek, 25 stycznia 2011 o 14:27:18 Randy Kramer napisał(a):
> >> On Tuesday 25 January 2011 04:04:53 am Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote:
> >> > Dnia wtorek, 25 stycznia 2011 o 00:43:11 Lex Trotman napisał(a):
> >> > > Your description of single instance, multi window is correct,
> >> > > yes there is a slightly enhanced risk, but IMH(unbiased)O
> >> > > compared to the problems with multiple instances this is
> >> > > small, see my scenario on another post on this thread.  No
> >> > > software can prevent the same file in two instances being
> >> > > different.  With a single instance all windows see the same
> >> > > (possibly modified) version of the file.
> >> >
> >> > Open Office, for example, can: all other instances are either
> >> > detached (as in stationery) or read-only.
> >>
> >> Krzysztof,
> >>
> >> Is that on Windows or Linux?  (I can imagine differences between
> >> them, and rarely use Open Office myself.)
> >
> > I have seen that on Windows.
>
> On Linux OOO is a single instance multiple window application. And I
> can't get it to load the same document in more than one window
> anyway, it just raises the window where the document is already open?

Yes, I forgot about that behavior (that I've seen in other 
apps)--sometimes quite useful, sometimes very annoying.

Randy Kramer