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Joril
Joril

Reputation: 20577

Running more than one instance of Evince

I have a wxPython application and I'm using Evince to display the reports it generates. Since I'd like to delete every report after the user has closed the corresponding Evince instance, my application uses a thread that does a subprocess.call() to invoke Evince, and then removes the report when the subprocess terminates.
This works fine as long as the user looks at just one report at a time, because if he opens one report and then another (without closing the previous one) the previous Evince instance gets "recycled" to show the new report, so subprocess.call() returns immediately and the file gets deleted too soon.
Is there a way to force Evince to use a new instance every time?

(Xubuntu 8.10)

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1300

Answers (3)

Joril
Joril

Reputation: 20577

It looks like the version that comes with Ubuntu Lucid (2.30) does work for my usecase... Maybe they changed their mind :)

Upvotes: 0

Joril
Joril

Reputation: 20577

Wouter Bolsterlee suggests:

dbus-launch --exit-with-session evince file://...

Upvotes: 1

PiedPiper
PiedPiper

Reputation: 5785

You can't do that with evince. Try suggesting that to the developers as a new feature.

Upvotes: 0

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