[vlc] Only one VLC instance

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Le 15 oct. 07 à 16:15, Dotan Cohen a écrit :

> I just introduced the stepmother to Linux, and she is rather enjoying
> Fedora. However, she cannot program herself to close any open instance
> of vlc before clicking on another file. I'm no good at bash, and I
> need this working for her _today_, so I'm kindly asking if anyone has
> a wrapper script for vlc that checks if there is a running instance,
> and if so closes it before opening a new instance. Basically, she
> needs the appearance that the new file is 'replacing' the old file in
> the open program. Sorry for the bother, and thanks in advance.
>
> Dotan Cohen
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Hello
In a shell script : you could use "ps" to get back the ID of  
processes running on your system, and "grep" to recover just the ID  
of process running VLC.
Then , you can send him a signal SIGTERM with "kill no_ID SIGTERM",  
it closes VLC.
I try this trick with MAC OS X, it's OK. Don't know how it works on  
Fedora.
Hope this will help you.
Best regards.
Hervé