On 2018-07-15, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote:
> On 2018-07-15, Octopus Octopus <oct2...@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.
