KDE or Firefox desktop switching problem.problem?

Steven W. Orr steveo at syslang.net
Sat Nov 7 18:01:25 UTC 2009


On 11/07/09 00:35, quoth Ed Greshko:
> Steven W. Orr wrote:
>> I'm on F10 + Firefox 3.5.4 that I got from http://blog.famillecollet.com/ +
>> Thunderbird-2.0.0.23
>>
>> Also, I did an update so I'm running kde 4.3.2.
>>   
> Well.....
> 
> I am sorry I'm not running F10 and I don't normally do non-standard
> updates/upgrades.
> 
> But, FWIW, I've got an instance of F11 running with FF 3.5.4 and TBird
> 3.0-2.8.b4.
>> Here's the problem. I'm in tbird on desktop 1 with firefox running in desktop
>> 2, and a message has a URL in it. I click on the URL in tbird which causes the
>> URL to load in the firefox on desktop 2. But now for some reason that I can't
>> figure out, firefox pops over to desktop 1. If I click and quickly switch to
>> desktop 2 then I can usually get there before firefox pops over to desktop 1.
>>   
> Tbird on DT1, FF on DT2.  Click on the link in Tbird and the link is
> displayed in FF on DT2 and I'm switched to DT2 to view.  That is FF
> stays on DT2 and my focus is simply switched to there.
> 
> If I have "Preferred Applications-->Internet-->Web Browser" set to FF
> and I've checked "Open in new window" the link will open a new FF window
> in DT1. 
> 
> Is that how you have things set up?
>> Can someone tell me if this is a firefox problem or a kde problem?
>>   
> 
> 
> 

I'm sorry, I have no idea where you're starting from

"Preferred Applications-->Internet-->Web Browser"

Is this tbird, ff, or kde? I don't see that path from either of them.


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