OOOOOK!! Thanks a lot Preston. This replaces with 5 lines my 20-lines DCOP code which attempted to provide 3 commands in kikbd which replaced the 10-lines XAtoms code which did the exactly the same thing for more than 2 years (hence waaay to long :-) Thanks Cristian Tibirna On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 pbrown@redhat.com wrote: > general solution for doing this with a subclass of KApplication, which I > have called KUniqueApplication.