Closed Bug 373505 Opened 17 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Thunderbird does not display when launched a second time

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: rtjyk, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: 1.5.0.10

When thunderbird is already running and is "iconified" in the taskbar, lauching thunderbird again (with the mozilla-thunderbird command) should display the thunderbird main window, it does not.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch mozilla-thunderbird
2. iconify the main window
3. launch mozilla-thunderbird a second time
Actual Results:  
the main window does not display

Expected Results:  
the main window should display
WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3pre) Gecko/20070310 Thunderbird/2.0pre ID:2007031003

Though some of the focusing can depend on your gnome/kde settings i think.
I tried with icewm, gnome and kde, with the same result. Os is Mandriva 2007.
Is it different on other linuxes ? (fedora ..)

Additionnal information:
Not sure about the version, but I believe this bug was not in the version 1 and appeared in the 1.5 version
Thunderbird 3.0 version 3.0a1pre (2008040103) 
BuildID=2008040103
Freespire 2.0 / Ubuntu 7.04
Opens the original instance of Thunderbird 3.0 (only one process running - not a duplicate instance)
Appears to work as designed
(In reply to comment #1)
> WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3pre) Gecko/20070310
> Thunderbird/2.0pre ID:2007031003

(In reply to comment #3)
> Thunderbird 3.0 version 3.0a1pre (2008040103) 
> BuildID=2008040103
> Freespire 2.0 / Ubuntu 7.04
> Opens the original instance of Thunderbird 3.0 (only one process running - not
> a duplicate instance)
> Appears to work as designed
> 

Based on comment #1 and comment #3, -> WFM.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Yes, I upgraded to thunderbird 2.0.0.9 and this bug is solved: when thunderbird is running, iconified in the taskbar and when the thunderbird command is launched again, the thunderbird main window is showed. I believed it was solved in the first 2.0 release.

ps: did not change the resolution to FIXED as I'm not sure I can do that..
rt, resolution FIXED is only for when you know which patch fixed it
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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