On 2024-04-16 at 10:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 02:21:27PM -0000, Curt wrote: > >> Have you tried *closing* one of the two windows, *quitting* the >> remaining one, and then restarting your bird? > > 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. The situation appears to be triggered by doing one of the UI actions that causes Thunderbird to open a new "main" window - which can happen by accident, e.g. by trying to detach a tab from the main Thunderbird window (which apparently doesn't open a new window with just that tab, but rather opens an entire new main Thunderbird window with the contents of that tab active). That in turn can (I would expect) be done accidentally by trying to drag a tab to a new position in the tab bar, but unintentionally dropping it at a place which is instead treated as outside of the window. -- 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
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