Re: Run two instances of Sylpheed simultaneously

From	Byrl Raze Buckbriar <news0@octade.net>
Newsgroups	rocksolid.shared.hacking
Subject	Re: Run two instances of Sylpheed simultaneously
Date	2024-09-20 11:17 +0000
Organization	OCTADE
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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:
> 
> > 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?

It doesn't matter why. It only matters how. The goal is to figure out exactly how Sylpheed is doing the instance lock so I can override it. I don't want 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 time because of the single instance lock which currently evades my understanding. Even blocking DBUS and seccomp doesn't mitigate the instance lock. Strace is not helping me, either.

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Run two instances of Sylpheed simultaneously Byrl Raze Buckbriar <news0@octade.net> - 2024-09-20 05:05 +0000
  Re: Run two instances of Sylpheed simultaneously Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-09-20 10:36 +0200
    Re: Run two instances of Sylpheed simultaneously Byrl Raze Buckbriar <news0@octade.net> - 2024-09-20 11:17 +0000

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