F9: evolution mail with URL

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue May 27 21:38:20 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 13:24 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> John Horne wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 14:32 -0400, Andrew Parker wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:45 AM, John Horne <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I have noticed with F9, using Evolution mail client, that if a message
> >>> contains a web URL and I click on it (the URL), Firefox is started up
> >>> but remains 'minimised' in the taskbar. That is, it doesn't open up and
> >>> show me the web page until I click on the Firefox icon in the taskbar.
> >>>
> >>> Since I clicked on the URL in the mail message, I would have thought it
> >>> somewhat obvious that I want to look at the web page :-) I could see no
> >>> options in Evolution or Firefox about this.
> >>>
> >>> Anyone else notice this, or have a fix for it?
> >> Are you sure its minimised and not just underneath Evolution?
> >>
> > Not sure what you mean by 'underneath'. How would I tell?
> 
> Try minimizing Evolution and see if the web page is displayed.  If so,
> then Firefox was open, but its screen was "under" the Evolution screen.

In most window managers' default config you can press the middle mouse
button within the title bar and the window will be pushed (lowered) to
behind everything else. Very useful when you have lots of clutter.

poc




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