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I tried to create a tomboy quicklist for Unity by copying the tomboy.desktop using the guide here What Custom Launchers and Unity Quicklists are available?

using the man page for Tomboy it says you can open tomboy using tomboy --open-note [title/url]

This works well when the application is closed. But once it has been opened, the command just display the window with the list of notes. When the command is run from the terminal it says [ERROR 14:33:43.474] Tomboy is already running. Exiting...

Zim Desktop Wiki on the hand recognised if the application is running and switched to that notebook.

With Tomboy I haven't been able too. I was hoping someone would know of a solution.

snippet from the .Desktop file

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=Daily;
[Daily Shortcut Group]
Name=Daily
Exec= tomboy --open-note Daily
TargetEnvironment=Unity
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Currently, a bug in Tomboy prevents it from being run with a different flag from command line if it is already started. Because of that, creating a quicklist for Tomboy is not really ideal because it won't work as intended.

I had been trying to create a quicklist for Tomboy some couple of months back and was blocked by this bug. I have since then filed a bug report on GNOME bugzilla and hopefully, the Tomboy developers will fix this shortly.

Here's the bug report:

You can subscribe to the bug report and follow the progress of the bug.

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I just tried gnote (similar application to Tomboy) and it is able to ideally handle the gnote --open-note=Daily command hence allowing you to create useful quicklists.

So I will most likely transfer my notes to that.

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