autostart second instance of Pidgin

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Don,

On Tue, 19 May 2015 10:03:18 +0100
DQ <dquish at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I like to run multiple instances of Pidgin and have figured out that do
> this I run the following commands from windows cmd
> 
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Pidgin
> set PIDGIN_MULTI_INST=1
> pidgin -mc c:users\ddon
> 
> The process then starts and I have to double click it from task manager to
> start it.
> 
> Do you know of any way to make this a bit less cumbersome?
> 

Did you try writing a script to do that - in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell , http://strawberryperl.com/ ,
Python for Windows, etc. (possibly even in Windows Batch, a.k.a CMD.EXE)? Or is
that not the issue?

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish


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