Idea #9868: Don't start to much help windows

Written by natureflow the 14 Jun 08 at 09:15. Category: System.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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Please print F1 for more then one second. A lot of windows will be open. Who does need so much windows with the same content? There should be only one window.

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svergeylen wrote on the 14 Jun 08 at 09:55

Yeah !

I tried it, I had more than 100 tabs in nearly 1 second !

Great !!! ;-) loll

Primož Papič wrote on the 14 Jun 08 at 10:03

Well yes I agree, but if you just press F1 and hold it down it will open only one window...
+1
But still when you need a help you are probably desperate and just pressing F1 so yes no matter how many times you press the button or for how long it should still open just one window

kenneth.venken wrote on the 14 Jun 08 at 11:17

There is a similar problem with clicking on update manager. if you doubleclick the update button, two update managers open. I don't see any reason why you would want to have two update managers.

Vadim P. wrote on the 14 Jun 08 at 12:30

Wow, that is a lot of windows.

drinkypoo wrote on the 14 Jun 08 at 14:37

It doesn't look like single instance programs are actually handled by anything in GNOME (I'd be happy to be wrong)

See http://lwn.net/Articles/205232/ for a solution, but I don't see GNOME adopting it any time soon, which is what would have to happen to fix the gnome help browser :(

I'd love to be wrong about that too :)

natureflow wrote on the 19 Jun 08 at 15:28

Fix this bug with the X11 server (X.org), which detects this key, not the application itself.

Tea4all wrote on the 19 Jun 08 at 19:33

Wow! Firefox opens help tabs like no tomorrow!

Arnaudus wrote on the 21 Jun 08 at 11:20

I can reproduce the bug; it's a real bug. But is it an idea? This should be tagged as "Not an idea" and copied on launchpad.

Pasto wrote on the 29 Jun 08 at 05:21

Wow, i had to do a hard reboot. :-/ Definitely +1

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