how to open two applications of the same kind in ubuntu 12.04?

Hi All,

I've just upgraded to 12.04 and I'm trying to open 2 gvims at the same time but 12.04 does not do it. When I click on the quick-launch icon the second time, it just brings in front the first window opened before. For other applications I found that right click will give me the option of opening a second "new" one. But for gvim it just didn't happen.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Orsolya

Try holding down the shift key while left clicking on the icon.

some software have "single instance" property.
You can try: go to terminal , gksudo <name of software> to open with other user mode

Both suggestions work! Thanks very much.

For the command line option I also used Ctrl+D in terminal. This helped me to get rid of terminal window and end up with only the requested application window.