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1password often ends up with multiple instances running (each with its own trayicon)
I regularly launch the 1password standalone app (using rofi as my launcher). and I also use the Chrome extension too.
Over time I often notice that there are several instances of 1Password running...
What I've seen before is a bug where if you toggle "keep in system tray" a couple of times, you can create an infinite number of 1Password icons.
I haven't really seen cases in which I have multiple copies of 1Password running (except, of course, when I'm running dev builds). What I do tend to see is a lot of different processes running with a single instance of 1Password. However, what you describe really sounds like multiple independent copies of 1Password.
Our mechanism is built in to Electron, which creates a trio of links in ~/.config/1Password. SingletonCookie and SingletonLock both point to identifiers, not actual files. SingletonSocket points to a socket that should be in your /tmp folder and serves as the communication mechanism for sending CLI parameters to the running desktop app. We haven't done very much with this as its always seemed reliable.
How have you installed 1Password? Is it possible, however far-fetched, that you have more than one copy installed?
