Re: Two Quicksilver Icons in Dock...

[Patrick Robertson]

Currently, Quicksilver has no way of checking if it is running more than once during launch. It is probably something we should implement, and a problem we are aware of.

For the time being, I suggest you continue as you are doing - just quit one of them. If you have any ideas as to why two instances of Quicksilver might be launching, that would be helpful for us

On 16 August 2012 06:29, Ricketts <rikk...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes... it's happened on a few occasions. Usually following a restart after either running Cocktail OR a hard-start. 

On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 5:55:00 PM UTC-7, Peace Freak wrote:

From time to time I have noticed I have two QS icons in my dock at the same time.

If I quit one, the other stays launched, which seems strange to me as if I right click on them, and select Options/Show in Finder, they are the same applicationin my Applications folder. As they are the same application I would expect them to both quit if I quit one.

Has anyone else had this experience? 

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[Tim]

Sometimes you can't quit one in the normal way.  I've found I have to launch Terminal.app. (found in Applications/Utilities) and type

killall Dock

And press the enter key after which the offending instance of QS will be gone. Of course, you can then quit Terminal. 

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[Rob McBroom]

I have a theory on this. There were a number of users under 10.7 that couldn't get Quicksilver to start when they logged in. A lot of them started using launchd to start it, but probably left the traditional method in place. Assuming Apple fixed something in 10.8 that made the old method work again, it could be starting via two methods now.

Does that sound plausible for any of you experiencing this problem?

Although, if restarting the Dock makes one of the instances go away, that tells me there were never really two running to begin with.

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[Tim Lawson]

Personally speaking, I don't recollect using launchd but how would I check to be sure, Rob?  I also don't recollect having any problems getting QS to launch under 10.7 so I think it's highly unlikely in my case.

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[Rob McBroom]

One user reports that telling Quicksilver to hide it's Dock icon, restarting, then turning the Dock icon back on fixed this.

[Chuck Keil]

this happens occasionally to me as well. using activity monitor I kill quicksilver, the 2 in the dock go away and I restart quicksilver. I have noticed no pattern for when this happens.

On Sunday, May 12, 2013 7:57:39 PM UTC-6, Ian Dickinson wrote:

I have this as well. I tried the last option but it did not work. This keeps happening! Help!

[Rob McBroom]

On May 13, 2013, at 12:10 PM, Chuck Keil <charle...@gmail.com> wrote:

this happens occasionally to me as well. using activity monitor I kill quicksilver, the 2 in the dock go away and I restart quicksilver. I have noticed no pattern for when this happens.

None of the devs have been able to reproduce this, but we’re pretty sure it’s a bug in the Dock. (The fact that restarting the Dock makes the second icon go away proves that it never should have been there to begin with.)

[Jacques Perreault]

I've had the same bug with other system level utilities, as well as Quicksilver. Launchbar, TextExpander - both of these do the same thing.

For me, I like placement to be particular in the dock. So while the apps were running for the first time, I dragged them over to the far left near the Finder icon to indicate these are system level apps or utilities for me.

I reboot and any of these kinds of apps, show launched on the far left as normal - and create a new icon on the far right that shows launched as well! Mountain Lion only, never saw this behavior in Lion. Not sure if this bug is in Mavericks.

Anyone else have suggestions on how to deal with this?

[Jacques]

On 22 Nov 2013, at 11:18, Jacques Perreault wrote:

> I've had the same bug with other system level utilities, as well as
> Quicksilver. Launchbar, TextExpander - both of these do the same
> thing.
>
> For me, I like placement to be particular in the dock. So while the
> apps
> were running for the first time, I dragged them over to the far left
> near
> the Finder icon to indicate these are system level apps or utilities
> for me.
>
> I reboot and any of these kinds of apps, show launched on the far left
> as
> normal - and create a new icon on the far right that shows launched as
> well! Mountain Lion only, never saw this behavior in Lion. Not sure if
> this
> bug is in Mavericks.
>
> Anyone else have suggestions on how to deal with this?

By the way, the terminal command killall Dock works to destroy the
second loose icon. So for now, after every reboot I hit this command.
Strange that we'd have to though..

[Brian Bucknam]

The good news is that Apple seems to have finally fixed this Dock bug in Mavericks.

Cheers,

Brian