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    From Byrl Raze Buckbriar@news0@octade.net to rocksolid.shared.hacking on Fri Sep 20 05:05:26 2024
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    I am trying to hack a way to run two instances of Sylpheed simultaneously. =
    Of course Sylpheed is designed to prevent this from happening.

    Sylpheed is using some kind of dbus or proc check to identify a already run= ning instance and switch to it. Does anyone know how to disable this, perha=
    ps with a shell environment variable or some kind of redirection filter?

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    Hacker Hotline . voice & SMS . (781) OCT-AGON
    KeyOxide . < https://keyoxide.org/keyoxide0@octade.net >

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  • From Marco Moock@mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de to rocksolid.shared.hacking on Fri Sep 20 10:36:47 2024
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    On 20.09.2024 um 05:05 Uhr Byrl Raze Buckbriar wrote:

    I am trying to hack a way to run two instances of Sylpheed
    simultaneously. Of course Sylpheed is designed to prevent this from happening.

    Sylpheed is using some kind of dbus or proc check to identify a
    already running instance and switch to it. Does anyone know how to
    disable this, perhaps with a shell environment variable or some kind
    of redirection filter?

    There is one big problem: If you are able to run them at the same time,
    they will interfere each other regarding configuration files.

    What is the reason you want to run 2 instances?
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    kind regards
    Marco

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  • From Byrl Raze Buckbriar@news0@octade.net to rocksolid.shared.hacking on Fri Sep 20 11:17:57 2024
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    On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:36:47 +0200
    Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote:

    On 20.09.2024 um 05:05 Uhr Byrl Raze Buckbriar wrote:
    =20
    I am trying to hack a way to run two instances of Sylpheed
    simultaneously. Of course Sylpheed is designed to prevent this from happening.
    =20
    Sylpheed is using some kind of dbus or proc check to identify a
    already running instance and switch to it. Does anyone know how to
    disable this, perhaps with a shell environment variable or some kind
    of redirection filter?
    =20
    There is one big problem: If you are able to run them at the same time,
    they will interfere each other regarding configuration files.
    =20
    What is the reason you want to run 2 instances?

    It doesn't matter why. It only matters how. The goal is to figure out exact=
    ly how Sylpheed is doing the instance lock so I can override it. I don't wa=
    nt to fiddle with workarounds that involve convolution. I just want to hack=
    the instance lock.

    I already know I can run it as another user and share the x-server. I have = even done it this way in the past. I don't want to do it that way.

    I have two instances in sandboxes, which could run at the same time without=
    using the same configuration directory. But they can't run at the same tim=
    e because of the single instance lock which currently evades my understandi= ng. Even blocking DBUS and seccomp doesn't mitigate the instance lock. Stra=
    ce is not helping me, either.

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    Hacker Hotline . voice & SMS . (781) OCT-AGON
    KeyOxide . < https://keyoxide.org/keyoxide0@octade.net >

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