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Rod
 Post subject: 2 Gimps at once?
PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:24 pm  (#1) 
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Is it now possible to open two instances of Gimp-2.8.4?
I accidentally double tapped Gimp to open twice and well...it did. lol

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I have never ever been able to open 2 gimp interfaces at one time.Not without Shellout anyways. :)

Weird.That must have been perfect timing, or Gimp-2.8.4 has made it possible.

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Oregonian
 Post subject: Re: 2 Gimps at once?
PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:38 pm  (#2) 
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Running v2.8.4 and tried opening another instance. Didn't work. I shut down GIMP and tried double-clicking the launcher and still only one instance.

Interestingly enough, I can open more than one instance of Firefox or Thunderbird.

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Rod
 Post subject: Re: 2 Gimps at once?
PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:47 pm  (#3) 
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My launcher is on my RocketDock.I wonder if that was the case.

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 Post subject: Re: 2 Gimps at once?
PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 6:16 pm  (#4) 
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Rod wrote:
My launcher is on my RocketDock.I wonder if that was the case.


I use 'RocketDock' and that never happened to me by over-clicking, but I'm using 2.6.11.
On the other hand... I have opened 3 instances of the 2.6.11 a few times, by just selecting 3 image to open with GIMP from the right-click menu.
It did use up lots of memory though and nearly crashed my PC.

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Rod
 Post subject: Re: 2 Gimps at once?
PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:47 pm  (#5) 
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It was actually Gimp-2.8.4 portable with Parthas new gimprun binary.
That may be the answer.
I just clicked it 3 times and opened 3 instances and 2 are not responding. lol
Guess i will have to be very click wary.

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 Post subject: Re: 2 Gimps at once?
PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 10:29 pm  (#6) 
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I've done it, on purpose, but it worked.

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 Post subject: Re: 2 Gimps at once?
PostPosted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 11:05 pm  (#7) 
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I've managed to open and run 2 or 3 instances of GIMP repeatedly and it obviously works with 2.8.4-2.8.10 versions.
Each and every instance is fully functional, you can creates and save documents in each without any performance penalty.

Here's the screencast (~1 minute, better if watched on Vimeo in HD)


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Obviously it's not supposed to be happening and Idk which end is at fault - Windows or GIMP.
Gotta ask the devs, not sure they are aware of this 'feature' already :)
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