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Re: Lost the firefox windows

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rhkramer@gmail.com wrote: 
> On debian wheezy:
> 
> I might have fat fingered something (or not) but the firefox windows have 
> disappeared.  I was about to restart firefox (which would cause me to lose the 
> content on my private firefox window), but I ran a ps command and see that 
> firefox is still running, but I've checked all my desktops and the windows 
> (firefox gui displays) are gone.
> 
> Any thoughts on a way to recover them short of killing firefox and restarting 
> it?

Are you running a window manager which has the concept of
minimization/iconization? It might have just suspended showing
you the windows and be able to bring them back by undoing that.

-dsr-

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Lost the firefox windows rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-05-12 21:00 +0200
  Re: Lost the firefox windows Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-05-12 21:30 +0200
    Re: Lost the firefox windows David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-05-12 23:00 +0200
    Re: Lost the firefox windows rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-05-12 23:20 +0200
    Re: Lost the firefox windows l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2020-05-12 23:30 +0200

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