[Solved] Running and terminating multiple Writer instances

[_savage]

Hello,

I need to re-open a question from a few years ago; see the Terminating an office instance cleanly thread.

It seems to me that spawning multiple Writer instances as individual processes (using Python’s subprocess) and then shutting one process down kills the other as well. What vital resources are being shared here, and what is the recommended way of spawning multiple Writers (i.e. opening multiple documents) simultaneously?

I spawn an instance like so:

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/…/soffice --accept="pipe,name=office-lRI55bb7ceed993f-HtKxO436s;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" --headless --invisible

and currently don't use the

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-env:UserInstallation=file://…

command-line argument.

Thanks!

[_savage]

Extensive email discussion in the thread How to run multiple instances of Writer simultaneously? at the Document Foundation’s email list archive.