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Is there a way to configure the Ubuntu 12.04 menu/dash to launch multiple instances (processes) of an application?

With Vim, I sometimes like to launch several versions of it. With Vim configured on the toolbar, I am able to launch Vim once or quit Vim. If I click on the Vim icon with one Vim session running, I can only go back to the one Vim session.

Does such a configuration setting exist?

Jorge Castro
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octopusgrabbus
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The configuration way you may be looking for is creating a Quicklist for the Launcher to enable a second application instance from a mouse right click context menu. How this can be done is easily seen in the default gnome-terminal.desktop file below. Watch out for the last entries in [Desktop Action New]:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Terminal
Comment=Use the command line
TryExec=gnome-terminal
Exec=gnome-terminal
Icon=utilities-terminal
Type=Application
X-GNOME-DocPath=gnome-terminal/index.html
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=gnome-terminal
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=BugBuddyBugs
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3.4.1.1
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;TerminalEmulator;
StartupNotify=true
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;
Keywords=Run;
Actions=New
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-terminal

[Desktop Action New]
Name=New Terminal
Exec=gnome-terminal
OnlyShowIn=Unity

There also still is the mouse (wheel) middle click option to run a new application instance as shown here:

More on Launchers and Quicklists here:

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Takkat
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If you middle click the icon in the launcher, it opens a new session of that program.

carestad
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