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    <p>Hi!</p>
    <p>Single instance handling has always been broken for Sailfish OS
      3.</p>
    <p>Not even different .desktop files with different Exec entries
      like these are working, as they are probably both interpreted as
      "python3":<br>
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    <pre class="prettyprint"><code><span class="typ">Exec</span><span class="pun">=</span><span class="pln">python3 </span><span class="pun">/</span><span class="pln">path</span><span class="pun">/</span><span class="pln">to</span><span class="pun">/</span><span class="pln">application</span><span class="pun">/</span><span class="pln">app</span><span class="pun">1.</span><span class="pln">py
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<code><span class="pln"><code><span class="typ">Exec</span><span class="pun">=</span><span class="pln">python3 </span><span class="pun">/</span><span class="pln">path</span><span class="pun">/</span><span class="pln">to</span><span class="pun">/</span><span class="pln">application</span><span class="pun">/</span><span class="pln">app</span><span class="pun">2.</span><span class="pln">py</span></code>
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    <p>See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://together.jolla.com/question/193960/problem-with-excec-and-single-instance-in-desktop-files-on-sailfish-os-3/">https://together.jolla.com/question/193960/problem-with-excec-and-single-instance-in-desktop-files-on-sailfish-os-3/</a></p>
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    <p>(Fortunately for the Python applications there's a workaround:
      start both apps within a second or so...)<br>
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    <p>Regards,</p>
    <p>Dietmar<br>
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