Re: tbird troubles

From	The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: tbird troubles
Date	2024-04-17 21:00 +0200
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On 2024-04-16 at 16:56, gene heskett wrote:

> On 4/16/24 10:46, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-04-16 at 10:28, Greg Wooledge wrote:

>>> In his original message, he claimed that closing one window
>>> makes the other one also close.
>>> 
>>> I asked *how* he was closing them, and he said that he gets the
>>> same result whether he uses the WM's close button, or the
>>> application's Exit menu choice.
>> 
>> From what I saw in a Bugzilla bug report (which I think was linked
>> to in this thread?) about a similar behavior (dating back a good
>> number of years, and closed as - more or less - "not meaningfully
>> fixable" or the like), neither of those is what is needed.
>> 
>> What needs to happen, according to that analysis, is to close one
>> of the windows not by File -> Exit or File -> Quit, but by File ->
>> Close. (In my - severely obsolete - Thunderbird version, it's near
>> the top of the File menu, and has the associated keyboard shortcut
>> Ctrl+W.)
>> 
>> Reportedly, after doing that, if you then quit the program entirely
>> (by any of the other available methods), when you re-launch it it
>> will come up with only one window.
> 
> Thank you, that fixed it!

You're welcome.

Please extend your thanks to Tomas, who is the one who tracked down the
links that led to the bug report where I found the analysis and this
advice, and also to Curt, who was giving the same recommendation in
different terms before I got to it.

All I did was read the discussion at the link Tomas provided, and find a
different way to express it.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

Thread

tbird troubles gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-04-15 14:30 +0200
  Re: tbird troubles Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-04-15 15:10 +0200
    Re: tbird troubles gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-04-15 16:10 +0200
      Re: tbird troubles eben@gmx.us - 2024-04-15 17:00 +0200
        Re: tbird troubles Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-04-15 18:50 +0200
          Re: tbird troubles Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-04-15 19:30 +0200
            Re: tbird troubles gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-04-15 21:50 +0200
          Re: tbird troubles gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-04-15 21:40 +0200
        Re: tbird troubles gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-04-15 21:20 +0200
          Re: tbird troubles <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-04-15 21:30 +0200
            Re: tbird troubles gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-04-15 23:20 +0200
  Re: tbird troubles Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-04-15 16:20 +0200
    Re: tbird troubles gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-04-15 21:10 +0200
      kde troubles (was: tbird troubles) Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2024-04-16 09:10 +0200
    Re: tbird troubles "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2024-04-15 21:20 +0200
  Re: tbird troubles Matthew Lemon <matt@matthewlemon.com> - 2024-04-15 20:10 +0200
    Re: tbird troubles gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-04-15 21:40 +0200
  Re: tbird troubles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-04-16 16:30 +0200
    Re: tbird troubles Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-04-16 16:30 +0200
      Re: tbird troubles The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2024-04-16 16:50 +0200
        Re: tbird troubles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-04-16 17:20 +0200
        Re: tbird troubles <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-04-16 18:20 +0200
          Re: tbird troubles Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-04-17 16:10 +0200
        Re: tbird troubles gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-04-16 23:00 +0200
          Re: tbird troubles The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2024-04-17 21:00 +0200
            Re: tbird troubles gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-04-17 23:10 +0200
              Re: tbird troubles <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-04-18 07:00 +0200
                Re: tbird troubles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-04-18 16:20 +0200
      Re: tbird troubles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-04-16 17:00 +0200
    Re: tbird troubles gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-04-16 23:00 +0200
      Re: tbird troubles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2024-04-17 17:00 +0200

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