How to...

IronSlippers · **Joined:** Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:04 am **Posts:** 4

Good day, everyone!

Is there a way to make Nexus-dock bring a running program to the foreground, instead of opening another copy of it?

I'm not using "show running applications in this dock" feature, because all those additional icons eat too much space of the dock. So I just need existing shortcuts to restore currently opened windows.

winstep · **Joined:** Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:30 pm **Posts:** 12289

Nexus Preferences -> Behavior tab -> Enable 'Do not launch multiple sessions'

IronSlippers · **Joined:** Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:04 am **Posts:** 4

Yeah, thanks. So many options, no wonder I missed it.

ChuckysChild · **Posted:** Mon Sep 24, 2012 5:43 pm

winstep wrote:

Nexus Preferences -> Behavior tab -> Enable 'Do not launch multiple sessions'

jorge i just tried this and when i click firefox and outlook shortcuts i got new windows. i had my roommate read the thread and he's reading it the same way i am. as you can see all i have are regular icons.

IronSlippers · **Joined:** Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:04 am **Posts:** 4

ChuckysChild wrote:

i click firefox and outlook shortcuts i got new windows.

I don't know about firefox, but outlook needs special argument to be added to its shortcut:

/recycle

For other programs 'Do not launch multiple sessions' option works just fine.

ChuckysChild · **Posted:** Tue Sep 25, 2012 12:47 pm

o.k. just tested again with firefox, outlook, and this time ie9 and of the 3 only ie9 did not open another instance. if there is a list of argument can someone please post it. thanks.

winstep · **Joined:** Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:30 pm **Posts:** 12289

The 'Do not run multiple sessions' setting does the following: it checks the pathname of the shortcut you just clicked on, assumes it is an executable and extracts the filename, then compares this filename to the list of currently running processes which is updated every second or so.

If you click a shortcut which points to a document file instead of directly to an executable (a URL or HTML file, for instance), then obviously this is not going to work.

ChuckysChild · **Posted:** Tue Sep 25, 2012 4:13 pm

winstep wrote:

The 'Do not run multiple sessions' setting does the following: it checks the pathname of the shortcut you just clicked on, assumes it is an executable and extracts the filename, then compares this filename to the list of currently running processes which is updated every second or so.

If you click a shortcut which points to a document file instead of directly to an executable (a URL or HTML file, for instance), then obviously this is not going to work.

so basically you're saying it has to do with where i pointed my icons at? that would explain it. i'll test it out later today and get back to you. thanks for the fast response and help.

ChuckysChild · **Posted:** Tue Sep 25, 2012 5:03 pm

ChuckysChild wrote:

winstep wrote:

The 'Do not run multiple sessions' setting does the following: it checks the pathname of the shortcut you just clicked on, assumes it is an executable and extracts the filename, then compares this filename to the list of currently running processes which is updated every second or so.

If you click a shortcut which points to a document file instead of directly to an executable (a URL or HTML file, for instance), then obviously this is not going to work.

so basically you're saying it has to do with where i pointed my icons at? that would explain it. i'll test it out later today and get back to you. thanks for the fast response and help.

pointed ff and ol to the exe's and all works perfectly. thanks again.

Winstep

Software Technologies

Winstep Forums

How to...