** Also affects: gthumb (Ubuntu Trusty)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: gthumb (Ubuntu Trusty)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: gthumb (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: gthumb (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+
+ The bug prevents users from launching a second instance of gthumb.
+
+ This feature is sometimes useful, for example, when opening a few images
+ in a row from a file manager - it might open a new instance of gthumb.
+
+ In addition, second instance fails to run without any messages (unless
+ you run it from terminal), which is confusing to the users.
+
+ The fix had been already applied upstream a few years ago, and it would be
nice to backport it to Trusty.
+ The debdiff which is attached to this report contains the backported patch.
+
+ [Test Case]
+
+ Steps to reproduce:
+
+ - launch one instance of gthumb from terminal: gthumb &
+ - try launching a second instance: gthumb
+
+ Expected result:
+
+ - second instance would open normally
+
+ What really happens:
+
+ - second instance shows error message and quits immediately:
+
+ GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Application does
+ not handle command line arguments
+
+ [Regression Potential]
+
+ The fix had been applied upstream a few years ago, so it had been tested
+ since then.
+
+ It was also tested by Utopic/Vivid/Wily users as it was included in
+ gthumb 3.2.8 in these releases.
+
+ I consider the regression potential to be low here.
+
+
+ [Original Report]
If I right click on an "image file" in caja, select "open with", then
"gthumb" :
In Linux Mint 13 Mate 32-bit I could open/launch multiple instances of gthumb
from caja
In Linux Mint 17 Mate 32-bit I can only launch a single instance of gthumb -
it seems to start, then nothing
In Linux Mint 17 Mate 32-bit I found I could open multiple instances of
gthumb only from the gthumb file menu, select "New WIndow".
Worked in 13, not in 17 - could not find a preference (like I describe below
for a similar problem with VLC Player) to solve this problem.
Note: found a similar problem with VLC Player, but it turned out a
difference in default preference setting in VLC from 13 to 17, making
that VLC preference change (preferences/interface settings/playlist and
instances/use only one instance when stated from file manager) solved
the problem.
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Mint 17/Ubuntu 14.04 - can only launch one instance of gthumb
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