Vivaldi forking in the background
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Hey, I'm using Vivaldi on Arch using the Gnome desktop interface. Gnome has a Dash with applications (similar to OSX), however if I run the Vivaldi application using the Dash it will start up Vivaldi as expected, but unexpected is that a second Vivaldi icon appears in my Dash. I assume this is because Vivaldi spawns in the background. Opera / chromium / firefox don't do this, which is why there is no issue there. Is there a commandline option for this perhaps? Best regards, Hans
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Hey RJules3,
I just recently discovered Vivaldi so I am pretty sure I don't have conflicting versions. I am not at home at the moment so I will confirm later, but the Vivaldi.desktop in my Dash is called Vivaldi (as defined in vivaldi.desktop) but the second icon that is added when I execute vivaldi.desktop is called vivaldi-beta if I remember correctly. Unfortunately I can't seem to add this to favourites (I assume only *.desktop can be added to favourites). Any idea why I get a second Vivaldi icon and you don't?
Best regards,
Hans -
Vivaldi (Beta) and Vivaldi (Snapshot) are coexisting peacefully on my Fedora 23 system. I wouldn't call that 'conflicting versions'. Then I don't understand you. The terms Vivaldi.desktop and Dash unfortunately I can't transfer into something that I see. The only Arch based system I am running is Manjaro but there I am using the XFCE desktop. If you have only one folder of Vivaldi in your /opt folder you have only one version installed. Is that the case I don't have a clue where the second icon is coming from.
Interestingly enough, because of your post I decided to try Vivaldi (snapshot) and it does not seem to fork in the background. I had previously installed version 1.0.344.37-1, now I have 1.0.385.5-1. Since this does not spawn a new process, it also works as I would like to in my Dash. Thank you for your replies and helping me out, I will use snapshot for now then
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