Re: Thunderbird always launching 2 copies.

[Curt]

On 2018-07-15, Curt  wrote:
> On 2018-07-15, Octopus Octopus  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.

Re: Thunderbird always launching 2 copies.

[Curt]

On 2018-07-15, Octopus Octopus  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'. 

Re: Thunderbird always launching 2 copies.

[Octopus Octopus]

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).

On 07/15/2018 05:59 AM, Carl Fink wrote:
> On 07/15/2018 12:54 AM, Octopus Octopus wrote:
>> Heyo,
>>
>>
>> I'm having this confusing bug where I launch thunderbird and it instead
>> launches 2 copies of it, I originally had an extra .desktop file for the
>> thunderbird-beta deleting it had no effect.
>>
> Does it do that if you launch Thunderbird from the command line,
> instead of by clicking a link? What is the result of
> 'which thunderbird'?
>

Re: Thunderbird always launching 2 copies.

[Carl Fink]

On 07/15/2018 12:54 AM, Octopus Octopus wrote:

Heyo,


I'm having this confusing bug where I launch thunderbird and it instead
launches 2 copies of it, I originally had an extra .desktop file for the
thunderbird-beta deleting it had no effect.


Does it do that if you launch Thunderbird from the command line,
instead of by clicking a link? What is the result of
'which thunderbird'?

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Re: Thunderbird always launching 2 copies.

[Andrew McGlashan]

Hi,

On 15/07/18 14:54, Octopus Octopus wrote:
> I'm having this confusing bug where I launch thunderbird and it instead
> launches 2 copies of it, I originally had an extra .desktop file for the
> thunderbird-beta deleting it had no effect.

No, it's not launching two copies; it is doing what Firefox does with
multiple windows.

You can open a "folder" in a new window, then have two windows of TB.
When you do q -- TB will remember you had two windows open and
re-open on restart with two windows.

Cheers
A.




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Re: Thunderbird always launching 2 copies.

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 15 July 2018 00:54:33 Octopus Octopus wrote:

> Heyo,
>
>
> I'm having this confusing bug where I launch thunderbird and it
> instead launches 2 copies of it, I originally had an extra .desktop
> file for the thunderbird-beta deleting it had no effect.

This is possibly not a bug, does it happen with any other app?  If so, 
its a sign the mouse may be dying due to a bad solder joint under a 
switch.  Try a new mouse?


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Thunderbird always launching 2 copies.

[Octopus Octopus]

Heyo,


I'm having this confusing bug where I launch thunderbird and it instead
launches 2 copies of it, I originally had an extra .desktop file for the
thunderbird-beta deleting it had no effect.