Re: [Pan-users] Re: Two instances of PAN

[Rick Barry]

I'm sorry to say, the explanations are over my head.

But I thank you both for replying, not your fault my abilities are below par.


--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Duncan <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Two instances of PAN
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 6:45 PM
> David Shochat <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sat, 08
> Nov 2008
> 12:08:33 -0500:
> 
> > Rick Barry wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> I'd like to run 2 separate instances of PAN
> 0.132 in Ubuntu 8.04.1. Is
> >> this possible? If so, how would I achieve this?
> >>
> >>
> > I think all you'd have to do would be to set the
> environment variable
> > PAN_HOME to something other than $HOME/.pan2 for the
> second instance.
> > For example, you could set it to $HOME/.pan2.2 and the
> 2nd instance
> > would use ~/.pan2.2 for its database. To make it more
> convenient, you
> > could write a 2-line script that sets PAN_HOME to the
> non-standard value
> > and then runs pan. You would then just use that script
> to launch the 2nd
> > instance. You could have 2 panel launchers, with one
> just launching pan
> > normally and the other running the script.
> 
> Well posted. =:^)  That's actually the way I have pan
> setup here, with of 
> course some individual variance in detail.  I have three
> instances, 
> pan.bin (binaries), pan.text and pan.test (for browsing
> around, since pan 
> keeps some info about groups you've been to even after
> you delete them, 
> this way I can easily blow that away without blowing away
> my regular 
> subscribed groups).  
> 
> Each instance is set to a subdir of ~/pan/ (I don't
> like hidden dirs, so 
> not .pan), ~/pan/text, ~/pan/bin, etc.  For config files
> that are the 
> same across all three instances, I have a ~/pan/globals as
> well, with 
> symlinks from the individual instance dirs as appropriate. 
> I thus have a 
> common scorefile and accels.txt keyboard accel mapping.
> 
> My starter scripts are pan.bin, pan.text, etc, with a kmenu
> entry for 
> each, and a khotkeys entry for those, so I can invoke my
> main instances 
> with just a couple keystrokes.  (I run pan.test seldom
> enough that it's 
> better run from the launcher dialog.)
> 
> -- 
> Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
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> 
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