running multiple instances

[Thomas Baumgart]

On Mittwoch, 2. April 2025 22:12:13 CEST Jack Ostroff via KMyMoney-devel wrote:

> Sometimes, I have two instances of KMyMoney open at the same time,  
> looking at different data files.  On several occasions, I have had the  
> experience of closing one of the two open files (I think, but am not  
> certain, that the problem happens when I close the file I had opened  
> earlier.)  If I then do an online download of transactions (not direct  
> connect,) with the browser set to open that download file (ofx or csv)  
> in KMyMoney, it complains that the file is already opened in another  
> instance.  Yes, it is open in the only running instance of KMyMoney,  
> and I want to import the downloaded data into it.  Instead, it  opens a  
> new instance of the program with no data file open, and obviously still  
> can't import the download.
> 
> I suspect that when I clos the first open instance of KMM, it changes  
> some configuration status so that it thinks no instance is running,  
> even though one is.  So, when the browser tries to open KMyMoney,  
> instead of just switching to the open instance, it tried to launch a  
> new instance.
> 
> Hopefully my explanation makes sense, and someone can point out exactly  
> why it is behaving as it is, and even better, if there is an easy fix.   
> Right now, the only "fix" I have discovered is to close and then reopen  
> KMyMoney.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.

Please check out https://invent.kde.org/office/kmymoney/-/merge_requests/272
Besides fixing the problem it also explains what caused it.
Feedback welcome (as usual).

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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