On 04/10/2011 08:09 PM, Rob Frohne wrote:

Hi All,

I'm trying to streamline a daily activity processing photos with Gimp by using incrontab (which makes it when you add files to a directory, it will automatically run a program to deal with the event). I have a python-fu script that I need to run after selecting four corners of what will be new photos. It will run itself on all images open in gimp which reduces my keystrokes or mouse clicks. The problem I'm having is that when I put four photos into the processing directory, incron opens four instances of gimp instead of opening gimp once and adding each photo to its open images. I'm using Ubuntu Linux. Are there any ideas out there on how to get around this problem cleanly? I'd really like to make the same instance of gimp open the photos, but I'm not sure how to do that.

Thanks,

Given that Gimp takes '-n' argument to force the use of a new instance, I'd think that the behavior you see isn't normal. Perhaps the foiur Gimp calls are made too fast for Gimp to set up the first instance fully. I would call Gimp from a script that does some random wait (doesn't need to be very long) before calling it...

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 21:09, Rob Frohne wrote:

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I'd really like to make the same instance of gimp open the photos, but I'm not sure how to do that.

This:
% gimp file1 file2
will open both files in the same Gimp window.

While this: % gimp file1 & gimp file2 &
will open each file to a seperate Gimp window.

Sophoklis