Zim-desktop-wiki: Can't open a window in existing instance

[kbrenneman]

If Zim is already running, then running it again starts a new instance, rather than just sending a command to the existing instance.

I think the problem stems from #1029. The socket it uses lives in the temporary directory, and each process gets a different temporary directory now, so the second process never sees the socket from the first process.

[kbrenneman]

On Linux at least, if XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set, then using $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/zim as a fixed directory should work. By the spec, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is supposed to be writable only by the current user, so it should avoid the problem in #1028.

[jaap-karssenberg]

Your absolutely right - that is a stupid mistake on my side :/
Will fix tomorrow and roll a 0.73.1 release

-- Jaap

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 9:05 PM Kyle Brenneman [e-mail]
wrote:

On Linux at least, if XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set, then using
$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/zim as a fixed directory should work. By the spec,
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is supposed to be writable only by the current user, so it
should avoid the problem in #1028
https://github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki/issues/1028.

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[jborme]

Thanks to this "mistake", zim 0.73.0 allowed to edit two pages side by side, which was an enjoyable feature for time time it last. It even warned of save conflicts and offered to reload externally-modified page. It went against my habit of calling zim from the OS application menu to have the running instance being un-minimized or gain focus, but that was the price to pay for what I thought was a new feature of multiple page edition.

Is there another way to achieve the edition of another page in parallel? A CLI parameter --new-window to open a another instance would do, but I guess this breaks the interprocess communication. The "Open in another window" calls a read-only mode, could this be changed?

[jaap-karssenberg]

There is a command line switch called standalone. However the risk with
two instances is that you overwrite a change in another instance

Op wo 24 jun. 2020 16:53 schreef jborme [e-mail]:

Thanks to this "mistake", zim 0.73.0 allowed to edit two pages side by
side, which was an enjoyable feature for time time it last. It even warned
of save conflicts and offered to reload externally-modified page. It went
against my habit of calling zim from the OS application menu to have the
running instance being un-minimized or gain focus, but that was the price
to pay for what I thought was a new feature of multiple page edition.

Is there another way to achieve the edition of another page in parallel? A
CLI parameter --new-window to open a another instance would do, but I guess
this breaks the interprocess communication. The "Open in another window"
calls a read-only mode, could this be changed?

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