Implement -U.
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If this argument is provided Conky won't start if another Conky process is already running.
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A couple issues: Another problem, getting the process name from |
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Thanks! It's the typical case of "it works on my machine"... |
The previous method used `/proc` to check the running processes, but it is a Linux-specific solution. This method uses `ps`, hopefully in a POSIX-compliant way. Linux: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ps.1.html FreeBSD: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ps(1) OpenBSD: https://man.openbsd.org/ps.1
A random process named `conky11` won't stop Conky to start when `-U` is provided.
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If this argument is provided Conky won't start if another Conky process is already running.
Conky starts multiple times on my system at startup, and it is bothering me. I'm too lazy to check all of my config files, so I added this mechanism to prevent this behavior.