"Paul B. Gallagher" <[email protected]> wrote: > Leonidas Jones wrote: > >> To close the program properly on Windows, click on File in the >> menubar, then choose Exit. This should ensure that the program >> actually closes, and that the lock file will be deleted >> automatically. Closing all the windows will usually close the >> program, but not always, as you have seen. > > Do you mean to say that the other options -- ALT-F4, CTRL-Q, and the > [X] icon at the upper right corner of the screen -- are not equivalent > to File | Close??? That would be astonishing to me (a nonprogrammer). > > I've noticed that SM (and Mozilla before it, for that matter) > occasionally fails to terminate correctly, leaving a process running > that I can see in Task Manager but no visible window or tile in the > taskbar. When that happens, it continues to retrieve mail, displaying > the tray icon and playing the sound, but the user has no way to access > the program. ALT-Tab cycles through all other running programs, but > never shows SM. Even Task Manager doesn't show it in the list of > running applications. > > If I force the process to close in Task Manager using "end process," I > can then relaunch the program normally with no harm done.
I am not a programmer either, nor am I a regular Windows user, at least not for a few years. Perhaps I should let a more experienced Windows use speak to the efficacy of File>>Exit, as opposed to the close box. I will note that it has been discussed a number of times in these groups in the past. I would think that ctrl+q would have the same effect as File>>Exit, though again perhaps a more experienced Windows user should comment. Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
