Autostart strangeness

[Rex Dieter]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> Anyway, I configured Autostart to fire up QBT on login, but I also use
> "save session" in KDE. Guess what: I get two instances of QBT running.
> Now the odd thing is that QBT is a "single instance" app. It's supposed
> to detect a running copy and not start another one. However the way it
> does this is by looking for a /tmp/qBittorrent-<uid> file. This actually
> works. There is a (single) file there when the two instances are
> running, and if I try to start a third one from the Shell it quite
> rightly refuses.
...
> Is it possible that the first (Autostart) instance of QBT creates the
> file, and something in the KDE startup sequence deletes it before the
> second (saved session) instance fires up? I can't think of another
> explanation, but IMHO this is Bad.

nothing in kde would touch that.  this is most likely a race/bug in 
qbittorrent