CEF IPC vs. Single app instance

[Peter]

Hello all,

Can I use the IPC we have in CEF to make sure that only one instance of my app is running?

I started reading the docs, and it seems to me that I have to create a browser instance to send and receive messages, is that correct?

What I want to do is to make the 'new' instance(s) quit, but tell the 'old' instance to open another browser window.

[amaitland]

No, the IPC is for communicating between the browser process and the render processes.

[Peter]

But this means that there is a way for these processes to find each other, so we might be able to find the already-launched instance?

[magreenblatt]

There are standard platform ways to guarantee a single app instance. Google “single app instance” + your platform.

[Peter]

There are standard platform ways to guarantee a single app instance. Google “single app instance” + your platform.

Well, of course I was hoping to get it "for free" and cross-platform, if CEF would allow it

I've looked around for GTK-based solution, and found a problem here: with GApplication, for the whole unique thing to work we are calling g_application_run(), that runs its own event loop - but I also need to run CEF event loop, any advice?

[magreenblatt]

There are several generic approaches on Linux, like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/220 ... 542#220542