Hi Patrick - Very interesting... In answer to your specific questions - no - apart from the main QS window, clipboard and shelf there are no other windows that I regularly open/use in QS including task viewer, and nor do I consistently open the prefs.
Best, Tim. On 19 Feb 2013, at 13:33, Patrick Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting, thanks Tim for all the info. > > I had 'close windows when quitting an application' enabled, so I've tried > disabling it to see what happens. Unfortunately I haven't been able to > reproduce the problem yet. > > This does give some pointers that the problem might be with the restoring of > apps on relaunch ( see [1]) although QS currently doesn't advertise as > supporting this anyway. We may need to set each window to be 'unrestorable'. > Apart from the main QS window, clipboard and shelf are there any other > windows that you regularly open/use in QS? Task viewer, do you consistently > open the prefs? > > Either way, most of these features were added in 10.7, so it may be worth > waiting until we drop 10.6 support before going all the way down this route > (-[NSWindow setRestorable:]) > hint: this won't be long ;-) > > > > [1] > http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/OSX_Technology_Overview/CocoaApplicationLayer/CocoaApplicationLayer.html > > On 19 February 2013 12:29, Tim Lawson <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry everyone - I've lost the previous thread dealing with this issue. > > I wonder if I may have stumbled upon something that may throw light on this > issue... > > I am rarely in front of my screen when my iMac starts in the morning but was > the other day and noticed that my shelf and clipboard history panes, which I > keep docked to the right hand side of my screen, showed up as solid black > during the boot process. Only when the boot process was complete did the two > panes display normally and there in my dock were two instances of QS. I'm > used to launching Terminal every morning and using the <killall Dock> command > which resolves the issue and leaves just one instance running, but it's a > niggle. > > Anyway, I popped into System Prefs > General and turned on (checked) the > 'Close windows when quitting an application' option. Every day since then, I > have not seen my usual two instances of QS in my dock. This is a pity > because I prefer to have my documents and windows restored when re-opening an > app. So it's a toss-up between doing the Terminal thing or leaving the > 'Close windows etc.' option checked. I still haven't decided which but... > > is this something worth looking at? > > Best, > Tim. > > iMac | 10.8.2 | QS ß72 (3946) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Quicksilver" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Quicksilver" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
