The Spotify app for Linux seems to trigger a cascading failure with Cinnamon on my machine, where it balloons up sucking up all my ram and cpu power. Great! So let’s switch it to a single instance app using Chromium.
We can bind a keyboard shortcut to:
one-classname-instance "open.spotify.com__browse.Chromium-browser" "/usr/bin/chromium-browser --app=https://open.spotify.com/browse"
Where one-classname-instance looks something like this:
#!/bin/bash CLASSNAME=$1 PROGNAME=$2 if [ -z "$CLASSNAME" ]; then echo Your options... wmctrl -xl exit 1 fi if [ -z "`wmctrl -xl | grep -i \"$CLASSNAME\"`" ]; then $2 & else wmctrl -xa $CLASSNAME fi