Bug 88634 – Closing either firefox or thunderbird and exiting window manager, console output "no running windows found" is reported. firefox and thunderbird launch without difficulty.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description john lowell 2005-04-10 13:11:20 UTC]

Exiting fluxbox after having run firefox or thunderbird I see console ouput "no running windows found". If I have opened and closed either of these programs more than once in a session, there will be one such message for each launch. Firefox and thunderbird are functioning perfectly well. Why it would be that seeing these messages is essential escapes me; previous versions haven't reported it and it can be confusing to inexperienced users. The only solution would seem to be redirecting firefox and thunderbird output to /dev/null from lauch command in fluxbox menu but that's overkill. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Exit firefox or thunderbird
2.Exit fluxbox
3."no running windows found" message displayed on console

Actual Results:  
I get mad. :-)

Expected Results:  
It should not have displayed this message, it should have ben silent what ever
else may have been going on behind the scenes. This information is entirely
unnecessary.

[Comment 1 MAL 2005-04-20 03:14:38 UTC]

It's because more recent versions of firefox/thunderbird/mozilla suite use mozilla-launcher (look at the contents of /usr/bin/firefox), which attempts to open a link in an existing window if possible, or in a new instance if not.

If mozilla-launcher were to redirect output to /dev/null during it's attempts to start the browser/mail client, you wouldn't see any potential errors.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-12-23 04:12:18 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> If mozilla-launcher were to redirect output to /dev/null during it's attempts
> to start the browser/mail client, you wouldn't see any potential errors.

Yup, not a bug.