Re: [Pan-users] Pan-users Digest, Vol 198, Issue 3

[Dieter Britz]

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> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:03:29 +0100
> From: Dieter Britz <address@hidden>
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> Subject: [Pan-users] No second chance
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> I run pan under Kubuntu 18.04. If I get out of pan after a
> session, I can't bring it up again, neither by clicking on the
> icon, nor typing in "pan" into the console. For that, I get
> the message
>
> Added 0 files to the queue. Exiting.
>
> So, in order to activate pan a second time, I have to reboot.
>
> What does this mean? Can I fix it?
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> Hilsen / Regards
> Dieter
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> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 07:42:27 -0700
> From: David Shochat <address@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: [Pan-users] No second chance
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> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 7:15 AM Dieter Britz <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > I run pan under Kubuntu 18.04. If I get out of pan after a
> > session, I can't bring it up again, neither by clicking on the
> > icon, nor typing in "pan" into the console. For that, I get
> > the message
> >
> > Added 0 files to the queue. Exiting.
> >
> > So, in order to activate pan a second time, I have to reboot.
> >
> > What does this mean? Can I fix it?
>
> Sounds to me like it isn't really exiting. So before rebooting, see if
> it still is:
> ps -ef | grep pan
> If it is, you can just kill it, rather than rebooting. That wouldn't
> be a fix, of course, but it would clarify what the problem is (pan not
> really exiting).

You are dead on. Pan was still running. I used to quit it by
clicking on the top right cross, which works for most (if not
all other) programs, and that's the result. I just clicked instead
on quit in the top left menu File, and was able to restart pan.
problem solved, thank you!.

Regards
Dieter