On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 15:06 +1030, Tim wrote: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht: > >> It did turn out to be a problem with the state stored in ~/.purple . > >> Moving that directory aside caused pidgin to appear onscreen again > >> the next time I started it. > > I'm guessing that a list visible was left unset, and show system tray > icon was set at never, in the ~/.purple/prefs.xml file. The other files > don't appear to have contents that might pertain to showing the list, > and you probably don't want to have to recreate the accounts data. > > > Craig White wrote: > > Even worse, it's multi-launch meaning that many instances of pidgin > > can run at the same time, all without windows - I have seen a user do > > that and become terribly confused. > > If I try to run pidgin twice, the second attempt twiddles its thumbs for > a moment (there's a "starting" message in the window list), but then > aborts (it goes away, and there's only the first run pidgin running). > It seems to handle that user problem fairly well. ---- my experience with multi-launch was on F7 - perhaps they fixed it. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
