Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Donald Henson wrote:
> (SuSE 9.0, Gnome 2.2.2, Acrobat 5.0.5, Galeon 1.3.11a)
>
> While browsing the Internet using Galeon, I happened to open a pdf
> using, I assume, the Acrobat Reader plugin. The next link I clicked
> caused Galeon to stop responding. I also couldn't log out so I used
> Ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X. This sort of worked. I am now able to
> use Gnome and its applications normally except that an empty Acrobat
> Reader window refuses to go away. While trying to get it to go away I
> managed to create another one. So I now have two permanent empty Acrobat
> Reader windows. (Ashamedly, I even rebooted the system. Just in case.)
> Can anyone tell me how to get rid of these empty windows? Or am I stuck
> with them forever?  :-) Any advice or pointers will be appreciated.

Have you got your system configured to save open applications for next
boot?  If so, turn it off.  I'll have to try and find how to do that, as
I don't recall at the moment.