Thanks for your reply - unfortunately I am well aware of and enjoying the feature that it is sufficient to click only once except when opening a file after single clicking through the menu. This latter action, however, works fine.
BTW, I wrote down the wrong KDE version number - I am running 2.1.2, but the behavior was already there in 2.1.1 and I believe in an earlier version too. Strangely, right after installing 2.1.2. it was *not* there for the first few hours of using KDE. Maybe after the first reboot or even during the first session it started to happen again. I now recall my initial relief that it seemed to be gone. If there is something I can do to track where the behavior comes from, e.g., through some debugging procedure, I would be happy to contribute. Greetings / Schönen Gruss Andreas Jens Benecke wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:47:43PM +0200, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: > > > Hi all, I'm running KDE 2.1.1 debs on a potato (2.2.3) machine. What can > > I do to stop the following behavior: Whenever I start a program with the > > GUI (and not from bash) I get two, seldom even three icons on the > > external taskbar that indicate that the app is loading, with I presume as > > many instances of the program starting. One of the two or three survives > > and becomse the program, the others processes die. I find it annoying and > > it takes more time for programs to become available for use at startup. > > My guess is that you haven't yet got used to the fact that (other than e.g. > Windows) KDE by default doesn't require a double click to start a program. > > If you click on something twice, it will be started twice. Or rather, as > most programs detect duplicates of themselves, they will start, but then > exit as soon as they detect this. > > So what you are seeing is _probably_ due to what you are doing. Your > computer is taking your actions literally. > > Just my guess, however. There might really be a bug if you don't double > click. > > -- > Jens Benecke > http://www.hitchhikers.de/ - Die kostenlose Mitfahrzentrale für ganz Europa > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature