Richard Creighton wrote:
Now for the real problem that remains and it doesn't involve PMMail at all, only KMail (or perhaps FireFox). Anytime she presses a URL in an EMAIL message to launch FireFox, it correctly does this EXCEPT that it launches it in the SAME WINDOW as KMAIL.... EVEN IF FIREFOX is ALREADY RUNNING in another window. If FF is already running, it 'steals' that session and moves it from whatever session window it was in to the session window that KMail is open in. In order to get it back, she has to move FFox to the original desktop window manually. As she often is using several desktops for various applications, browser, mail, editing documents, etc., it is disconcerting to have her browser 'jump' to her mail desktop.
I have looked for and cannot find a way to prevent this behavior. TBird DOES NOT do this, So far, only KMail 'steals' the session from the desktop FFox was in and slaps it into the same desktop as the one KMail is running in. I am pretty sure that if I had not had a stroke and my mental facility was up to speed, I might have already figured this out, but after a week of looking I seem no closer to finding the 'switch' to turn off this behavior in KMail.
Firefox supports startup notification and therefore the window manager moves it to the current desktop if there is a window (or tab) opening. That happens under Gnome's metacity and as you noticed also kwin. I consider this a bug. It's not completely clear if it's a bug in Firefox' startup notification code or in the window managers. What I wonder is that you say that opening a URI from within Thunderbird wouldn't cause that but for me it does and that's expected. Not the calling application controls that but the interaction between the window manager and Firefox. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org