[Gambas-user] Strange second instance that never opens

[Mike Keehan]

MaxVK wrote:
> Hi there. I'm using Gambas 2.0.0 on Ubuntu 7.10
> 
> Iv made a small program to store my Gambas source code snippets. Its very
> quick and simple and contains no database connections etc; just plain flat
> files. I have created a package for the program, and installed it, and
> everything works fine, except for one small thing:
> 
> When I click the program icon from the menu, the program opens as it should,
> showing an icon (correctly) in the window list on my main taskbar area.
> However, for perhaps 15-20 seconds there is another icon for my program
> there too, which shows that it is trying to load the program for a second
> time. 
> 
> The running version of my program works fine during this time, although the
> mouse shows a waiting cursor when it is moved over the title bar of the
> window, and there seem to be no other side effects of this second (Apparent)
> attempt to open the program.
> 
> Is this a bug or have I done something silly that has caused it? Should I be
> concerned about it?
> 
> All the best
> 
> Max

I think it is just your window manager displaying a 'starting up'
icon.  The window manager is looking for a process to be running with
the same name as the property in the menu, but the actual running
program is something like "gbr2 name.gambas".

Mike