Bug 675450

Summary: Windows are iconized when desktops are switched.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stefan Seefeld <stefan>
Component: mozilla-firetrayAssignee: Hicham HAOUARI <hicham.haouari>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Stefan Seefeld 2011-02-05 18:06:11 UTC
I'm using a setup with multiple screens (laptop + external monitor), as well as multiple (virtual) desktops.

Whenever I switch away from the desktop where I have firefox open, then switch back to it, firefox (and all of its open windows, such as chatzilla) have been iconized. I'd expect all open windows to still be open, at the exact position where they were before I switched to another desktop.

Thanks,

Comment 1 Stefan Seefeld 2011-02-05 19:38:26 UTC
(The same behavior can be observed with mozilla-firetray-thunderbird. I assume it's the same bug, so it isn't worth filing a separate issue for it.)

Comment 2 Hicham HAOUARI 2011-02-07 13:26:31 UTC
Thanks for reporting this bug. We are working on this and a fix will be pushed to fedora testing repositories ASAP.

Comment 3 Hicham HAOUARI 2011-03-17 14:46:39 UTC
Upstream bug report

http://code.google.com/p/firetray/issues/detail?id=153

Comment 4 Hicham HAOUARI 2011-03-17 18:06:14 UTC
What window manager are you using ?

Comment 5 Stefan Seefeld 2011-03-17 18:17:03 UTC
I'm using KDE's desktop management tools. In particular, I just noticed that turning on "desktop effects" will allow me to switch virtual desktops without firefox being iconized.
I'm not sure which effect in particular is making the difference here.

Comment 6 Hicham HAOUARI 2011-03-18 23:28:58 UTC
does unchecking "Hide windows on minimize" options solve the problem too ?

Comment 7 Stefan Seefeld 2011-03-19 00:57:51 UTC
Where can I find that option ?

Comment 8 Hicham HAOUARI 2011-03-19 01:28:26 UTC
Tools>Addons>Firetray>Preferences

Comment 9 Stefan Seefeld 2011-03-19 11:45:00 UTC
Aha ! That worked, thanks.
It might be useful to add such a preferences menu as pulldown menu to the tray icon itself. At least I was looking for configure options there and couldn't find any.

Thanks for your help !

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