On Thursday 15 May 2008 12:16:56 pm Ken Schneider wrote:
Richard Creighton pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Hi all,
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.
Any help would be appreciated.
Richard
You should be able to set this in Edit-->Preferences--Tabbed Browsing and it will behave itself as long as Firefox is already open. If Firefox is _not_ already open it will open in the current window.
-- Ken Schneider
I assume you mean in FFox... That is done and in the case of TBird, it works as you describe. In KMail, it appears that KMail steals the FFox application to it's own desktop and then FFox opens the new URL in a new tab, as it should. The problem isn't that a new window is opening, it is that the existing window(s) and tabs are moved from one desktop to another. I believe the problem is in KMail or as some have suggested in KDE itself. Thank you Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org