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Re: Thunderbird always launching 2 copies.

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On 2018-07-15, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> On 2018-07-15, Octopus Octopus <oct2pus@jade.moe> wrote:
>>
>> which thunderbird produces
>>
>>     /usr/bin/thunderbird
>>
>> launching it through the terminal does not alter the results.
>> *I have disabled all addons and seems to have solved the problem. *I
>> might go through some further testing to see if it relates to
>> xul-ext-google-tasks-sync or xul-ext-firetray since those are both
>> addons from the repos I'm currently using (this problem occurred in both
>> and stretch to buster). However Reenabling all addons seems to not have
>> reproduced the issue. I believe it might be caused by Provider for
>> Google Calendar but I don't believe I got it from the debian repos (or
>> that its even there).
>>
>
> I've heard that firetray doesn't close windows by default but rather
> hides them in the systray, which means they can restored in the context
> menu of the systray icon, but equally signifies they reappear when
> Thunderbird is restarted. To alter that behavior right-click the icon,
> select preferences, and unclick 'Closing window hides to systray', or
> alternatively 'Only last window can be hidden'. 
>
>

Somebody was honking their horn outside in the street at three in the
morning and it occurred to me suddenly that you would probably *untick*
the former option ('Closing window...') or *tick* the latter one ('Only
last window...') to alter the behavior that provoked the OP.

I hope the octopodes were not confused.

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Thunderbird always launching 2 copies. Octopus Octopus <oct2pus@jade.moe> - 2018-07-15 07:10 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird always launching 2 copies. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-07-15 07:30 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird always launching 2 copies. Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-07-15 08:10 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird always launching 2 copies. Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-07-15 13:10 +0200
    Re: Thunderbird always launching 2 copies. Octopus Octopus <oct2pus@jade.moe> - 2018-07-15 17:40 +0200
      Re: Thunderbird always launching 2 copies. Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-15 18:20 +0200
        Re: Thunderbird always launching 2 copies. Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-16 10:00 +0200

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