[Qgis-user] Opening QGIS more than one time on OSX

[William Kyngesburye]

Opening an app more than once is not normal, and not the correct way to open multiple windows/projects for an app on OS X.  The app must be designed to open multiple projects if that behavior is desired.

Different application document model on OS X.  I'd rather not promote hacks like this, it might confuse OS X users (ie. you get an icon in the Dock for each app instance, not normal).

On Dec 18, 2012, at 2:18 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Linux or Windows you can easily open QGIS several times, e.g. to see more than one project side by side. Unfortunately, on OSX, this is not so easy.
> 
> I came across http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/25275/how-to-open-two-projects-at-once-in-one-qgis-window - suggesting to start it again from the command line with "open -n /Applications/QGIS.app/" - however, since many OSX users do not know about the command line - is there a more user friendly trick to open QGIS a second or third time?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andreas
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