Refresh workspace page or revisit it and you end up in jetbrains spawning hell

[buggtb]

Bug description

If you leave the workspace page and return to it, and, I beleive also just refresh the page. It starts spawning new instances to which there is no escaping.

Steps to reproduce

Leave open workspace page, return to open workspace page

Workspace affected

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Expected behavior

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Example repository

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Anything else?

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[loujaybee]

Thanks for raising this @buggtb, we are working with JetBrains to see if they can create an API so that we can re-target the thin clients, rather than spawning new ones (internal link).

[loujaybee]

Suggestion from @akosyakov: There are things we could do outside of a dedicated JetBrains API, e.g. we can also show when a thin client is connected, prompting the user to re-open an existing thin client, rather than opening a new window.

Previous PR attempt: #10216

[andreafalzetti]

@buggtb A new version of the Gitpod plugin has been released which comes with a fix for this :)