How to prevent starting applications automatically multiple times when restarting goomwwm ?

[xbot]

The option -auto only checks WM_CLASS/name/title of windows, but there are daemon s which cannot be checked and then started multiple times.

How to fix that ?

[seanpringle]

The -auto option is aimed at starting apps that need an X server, hence the reliance on window attributes.

Daemons are getting a ways outside a window manager's responsibility. I'd either use a normal init script or systemd, or do something like this is .xinitrc:

pgrep process >/dev/null || process