If you want to log in multiple times on KGS

The new CGoban 3 is a java web start application. java web start doesn't seem to allow you to start multiple copies of the same application (for cgoban at least). Anyway, for those that have multiple accounts that want to log in multiple times simultaneously, you might have thought all is lost and that you'll have to settle with the applet on the web... however, there is a way!

Yes folks and it's got to do with the fact that if you click close (with the little x at the top right) of the main window (the window with the 6 large buttons), it doesn't close the entire application. java web start doesn't seem to recognize that the application is still running (or perhaps this is a backdoor that wms coded in for us), and when you start a new cgoban, you'll have that main window again, this time with the log in button enabled! Yay!

Note: If you click on quit with the main window, it will close everything, all current children and orphan windows.

Note to wms: Even if this was unintented, please keep it as it is! It sucks having to log in through the applet.


Now if only there was a way to easily copy buddy lists and fan lists between accounts...