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[Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello and sorry for the delay,

Yes, the dock allows using multiple instances because maybe you want to
have multiple docks with different settings. But for that, you have to
force the dock loading the configuration from another directory by using
the '-d' option.

Maybe the dock should check if it's not already launched with the same
settings. But it can lead to other problem: what if the dock wrongly
detect that it's already launched?

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Title:
  dock menu allows multiple, overlapping instances

Status in cairo-dock package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This appears to be an interaction between XFCE and Cairo-Dock.

  If in XFCE, one goes to XFCE-> Settings-> Session and Startup->
  Application Autostart, and sets it to launch /usr/bin/cairo-dock, then
  one still has the option in Cairo-Dock to "+ Launch Cairo-Dock on
  startup".  This gives two overlapping instances of cairo-dock, See the
  attached screenshot.

  When checking to see if cairo-dock is already added to XFCE's startup
  applications, it should look to find manually added instances as well.

  $ apt-cache policy cairo-dock
  cairo-dock:
    Installerad: 3.3.99.beta1.2.really.3.3.2-0ubuntu2.1
    Kandidat:    3.3.99.beta1.2.really.3.3.2-0ubuntu2.1
    Versionstabell:
   *** 3.3.99.beta1.2.really.3.3.2-0ubuntu2.1 0
          500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       3.3.99.beta1.2.really.3.3.2-0ubuntu2 0
          500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: cairo-dock 3.3.99.beta1.2.really.3.3.2-0ubuntu2.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-41.57~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt11
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-41-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
  Architecture: amd64
  CompositingMetacity: No value set for `/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager'
  Date: Sat Jul  4 16:13:12 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-28 (5 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  PciDisplay: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400] [10de:0861] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   xserver-xorg             N/A
   libgl1-mesa-glx          N/A
   libdrm2                  2.4.60-2~ubuntu14.04.1
   xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A
   xserver-xorg-video-ati   N/A
  SourcePackage: cairo-dock
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  WM: No value set for `/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current'
  glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'glxinfo'
  system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = x86_64, kernel = 3.16.0-41-generic

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