On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Brad Rogers wrote:

>On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:16:10 -0700
>"<=K" <calamari@...> wrote:
>
>Hello <=K,
>
>>I haven't looked in detail into how it all works, but why can't
>>autostart build a tree of every path/args it runs as it goes,
>>discarding duplicates and thus not running things twice?
>
>Dumping stuff in Autostart should autostart it, surely?  If the program
>doesn't get started then that would be a bug in the autostart system.
>At least, to my way of thinking.  Creating exceptions in the way you
>suggest could lead to a *lot* of head scratching.
>
>Perhaps if the directory were called
>Autostart_Unless_there_is_an_exception_to_the_rule_Please_see_source_code_to_figure_out_what_some_of_them_might_be   :-)

If the OP insists on doing it the way it was described, then use
Autostart to fire of a shell script that tests for the existance of
an already-running kmix and `exit 0` if so; elsewise start kmix.

Nearly any annoyance can be beaten into submission...

Regards,
Jonesy
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