On 2024-04-16 at 16:56, gene heskett wrote: > On 4/16/24 10:46, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2024-04-16 at 10:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> In his original message, he claimed that closing one window >>> makes the other one also close. >>> >>> I asked *how* he was closing them, and he said that he gets the >>> same result whether he uses the WM's close button, or the >>> application's Exit menu choice. >> >> From what I saw in a Bugzilla bug report (which I think was linked >> to in this thread?) about a similar behavior (dating back a good >> number of years, and closed as - more or less - "not meaningfully >> fixable" or the like), neither of those is what is needed. >> >> What needs to happen, according to that analysis, is to close one >> of the windows not by File -> Exit or File -> Quit, but by File -> >> Close. (In my - severely obsolete - Thunderbird version, it's near >> the top of the File menu, and has the associated keyboard shortcut >> Ctrl+W.) >> >> Reportedly, after doing that, if you then quit the program entirely >> (by any of the other available methods), when you re-launch it it >> will come up with only one window. > > Thank you, that fixed it! You're welcome. Please extend your thanks to Tomas, who is the one who tracked down the links that led to the bug report where I found the analysis and this advice, and also to Curt, who was giving the same recommendation in different terms before I got to it. All I did was read the discussion at the link Tomas provided, and find a different way to express it. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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