# Makes sure only one purple instance is running # Purple is the legal property of its developers, whose names are too numerous # to list here. Please refer to the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02111-1301 USA from __future__ import print_function print("Usage:", sys.argv[0], "<purple-client> [arguments]") print("\nExample:\n ", sys.argv[0], "pidgin -d -c /my/home") home = os.path.expanduser('~/.purple/') for arg in range(1, len(sys.argv[1:])): if sys.argv[arg] == "-c": home = os.path.expanduser(sys.argv[arg + 1]) obj = bus.get_object("im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService", "/im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject") purple = dbus.Interface(obj, "im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface") userdir = purple.PurpleUserDir() if not os.path.isabs(userdir): userdir = os.path.join(purple.PurpleHomeDir(), userdir) print("Already running.") print("Starting client from a different home directory.") os.execlp(sys.argv[1], " ".join(sys.argv[2:]))