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Bug 674333 - Tomboy cannot be run with a different flag from command line
Tomboy cannot be run with a different flag from command line
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: tomboy
Classification: Applications
Component: General
1.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Tomboy Maintainers
Tomboy Maintainers
gnome[moved-to-github]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-04-18 13:47 UTC by jokerdino
Modified: 2017-07-31 12:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description jokerdino 2012-04-18 13:47:44 UTC 
If Tomboy is not already open, I can start it with a flag from command line. But, if it is running, I can't start it again with a different flag.

This is what I get if I try to do that:

$ tomboy --new-note
[INFO 21:45:32.617] Initializing Mono.Addins
[ERROR 21:45:33.099] Tomboy is already running.  Exiting...
Comment 1 Jared Jennings 2012-04-18 14:09:42 UTC 
Someone else reported a similar issue. I believe it only exists on Linux, while Windows behaves properly. I can't find the other bug, but it's around.
Comment 2 pt3 2012-06-14 07:29:37 UTC 
I have also encountered this problem, as I was trying to use it for creating Ubuntu Unity quicklist items. 
tomboy --open-note [title/url]

The application Zim Desktop Wiki is able to achieve this.

Link to the bug on Launchpad
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomboy/+bug/1012970
Comment 3 Jared Jennings 2012-06-14 20:09:51 UTC 
Oh the code is so messy for this issue. sigh.
Comment 4 pt3 2012-06-15 23:16:33 UTC 
the application Gnote is able to handle the command 
gnote --open-note=Daily 
when it is already running by presenting the note passed in
Comment 5 André Klapper 2017-07-31 12:47:38 UTC 
The Tomboy team has moved from GNOME Bugzilla to GitHub for bug reports and feature requests: 
      https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy/issues/
Closing this report as NOTGNOME as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping (bug 781054) to keep tasks in one place. Please feel free to transfer this task to GitHub if this task is still valid in a recent Tomboy version. 
We are sorry for the inconvenience.