Bug 770607

Summary:	Only opens one window per application, cannot open second copy of any application
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Christopher Beland <beland>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	browning48ky, maxamillion, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description Christopher Beland 2011-12-28 00:11:43 UTC

Here's what happens in Fedora 16:

1. Click Activities.
2. Click the Firefox icon on the left-hand sidebar menu.
3. A Firefox window opens and gets keyboard focus.
4. Use Firefox for a little while.
5. Click Activities.
6. Click the Firefox icon on the left-hand sidebar menu.
7. The same Firefox window gets raised and keyboard focus.

The problem is that in Fedora 15, at step 7 a second Firefox window would open, which is what I wanted to happen.

I have the same problem if I go to Activities -> Applications -> Internet -> Firefox.

This appears to affect all applications.  The workaround is to use File -> New Window in Firefox, but this is mildly annoying because when I just want a new window, I have to remember whether or not an existing Firefox window is already open, and if so go find it.

This becomes a serious annoyance in applications like Emacs where there is no equivalent menu option.  With no GUI way to start another copy of Emacs, I have to open a terminal session and start it from the command line.  Presumably there are other applications with similar limitations, and users that aren't sophisticated enough to figure out that workaround.

Comment 1 Christopher Beland 2012-06-02 23:42:44 UTC

Turns out the secret is to right-click on the program icon.  This is still a usability problem.

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