I use meld a lot (and have been for years) and usually have more than on
instance in use at a time. There are a number of reasons for this usage
pattern (e.g. working on more than one project at a time) but the main
one is that I use it as the external diff viewer for git, mercurial and
darning.
This used to work well for me but lately I've experienced problems as
follows (meld 3.12.3 on Cinnamon):
1. if I launch a new instance of meld while I have a running copy
minimised/iconified, the minimised instance gets raised.
2. if the original instance was on a different workspace to the one I
was working on I get shifted to that workspace (which can be a little
disorientating).
3. if I tick the "visible on all workspaces" option in an instances
window management options (in an attempt to cope with issue 2 above) it
doesn't play nicely e.g. it only shows up on another workspace if it was
maximised when I changed workspaces. Other programs do not exhibit this
behaviour including ones I have written myself that have nothing special
in their implementation to achieve this.
I realize that other users probably use meld in different ways to me and
that this coupling between instance probably suits their work practices
but I was wondering if it would be possible to have an option that turns
it off to allow launching of independent instances?
Thanks
Peter
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