How do i terminate Sketch.app after running "sketchtool run --new-instance"?

keronsen

I want to run a plugin command in a background instance of Sketch.app. If I run "sketchtool run" with --new-instance and --without-activating, the new Sketch.app process keeps running after the plugin has finished. How can I terminate it when the plugin command is done?

shaneal

In terminal

killall Sketch

mathieudutour

Be careful tho, if Sketch was already open, it will use that instance instead of creating a new one so you will close a Sketch instance where the user might have some unsaved work

keronsen

Thanks! I'm going to try to solve this by getting the process id of running Sketch processes before I call sketchtool, and then doing the same after it finishes. That way I can kill only the Sketch process that was started by sketchtool.

mathieudutour Using the --new-instance option ensures that sketchtool does not use the Sketch.app that a user is working in, or am I misunderstanding that?

shaneal

You can also do:

osascript -e 'quit app "Sketch"'

Haimonline

keronsen Did you manage to run the plugin on the new instance? I am using the --new-instance option but the plugin is being called on the existing instance and not the new one. 10x!

MaximBazarov

Haimonline The same issue. Trying to call Sketch support.

MaximBazarov

So, did some one find a solution?