”Autokey already open” message

[Johnny Rosenberg]

This error message has appeared to me now and then since the first
time I tried AutoKey, I think version 0.50 or something like that. The
message is displayed at upstart (of Ubuntu 10.10) sometimes, and it
also includes the PID for it. Of course when I check the PID, it
doesn't exist, it never does, maybe because it disappeared before I
checked every time.

Couldn't there be an option for something like ”brutal start-up” or
something like that? I mean, when this occurs, instead of showing a
message that AutoKey is already running and that the PID is 1902, why
not just let AutoKey kill the damn thing and then restart?

Another solution would be to add a button to the error message window:
”Start AutoKey anyway” or something like that.

Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

[Chris D]

Which version are you currently using? The latest version does not
display this message any more.

[Jostein Berntsen]

Maybe you could make an alias in your ~/.alias file like:

alias atk="pkill autokey && autokey-gtk &"

or even better update to the most recent version at:

http://code.google.com/p/autokey/downloads/detail?name=autokey_0.80.3.tar.gz

Jostein

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2011/11/3 Chris D <cde...@gmail.com>:

> Which version are you currently using? The latest version does not
> display this message any more.

0.80.3. I update whenever there is an update.

So maybe AutoKey doesn't produce that error message, but rather Ubuntu?

[Chris D]

Very strange. My guess is you somehow have more than one version of
AutoKey installed. Check if there is an autokey-gtk in /usr/local/bin
as well as /usr/bin

On Nov 4, 1:58 pm, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/11/3 Chris D <cdek...@gmail.com>:

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2011/11/4 Chris D <cde...@gmail.com>:

> Very strange. My guess is you somehow have more than one version of
> AutoKey installed. Check if there is an autokey-gtk in /usr/local/bin
> as well as /usr/bin

$ cd /usr/bin/
$ ll | grep autokey
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 805 2011-10-12 15:43 autokey-gtk
$ cd /usr/local/bin/
$ ll | grep autokey
$

(ll is an alias for ”ls -lB --si --group-directories-first”)

[Chris D]

Try updatedb followed by locate.

[Jaan Suurküla]

STILL UNSOLVED BUG

I installed Autokey a in October 2012 on my Ubuntu 12.04.  I dont know what version of Autokey, because it is impossible to open Autokey. It worked well in the beginning but now this "Autokey is already open at pid:xxx" shows. I did have two versions installed. Uninstalled one of them (the QT one because it did not work well) but that did not make any difference.

This appears to be a bug that is still not solved.

Jaan

[Luke Faraone]

On 20 October 2012 14:44, Jaan Suurküla <jsuu...@gmail.com> wrote:

STILL UNSOLVED BUG

http://email.about.com/od/netiquettetips/qt/Writing-In-All-Caps-Is-Like-Shouting.htm

 

I installed Autokey a in October 2012 on my Ubuntu 12.04.  I dont know what version of Autokey, because it is impossible to open Autokey. It worked well in the beginning but now this "Autokey is already open at pid:xxx" shows.

You should check what version you have installed by looking in apt-get, or checking the changelog: 

/usr/share/doc/autokey-gtk/changelog.Debian.gz

and the top version listed is the version of autokey-gtk you have installeed.

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