GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 720360
re-running geary while it's on the welcome screen shows a blank window
Last modified: 2015-11-19 22:22:22 UTC
As I discovered when moving to GtkApplication, if you run geary while Geary is already running and currently displaying the welcome dialog, the original instance shows a tiny empty window (and the re-run instance exits properly). What's going on here is that when Geary first fires up, it creates the main window but doesn't show it. It then presents the welcome dialog. Only when the welcome process finishes does it populate and show the main window. When the second run starts, it sees that Geary is already running and shows the currently empty main window. Note that this behavior was *not* introduced by the move to GtkApplication, but has been around presumably as long as the welcome dialog flow has worked like it does.
See also bug #737811 Upping to High, as we're (potentially) getting reports of this in the wild.
I think I am affected Here is what happens: I start my computer (Ubuntu 14.04 and Geary 0.8.1) and Geary is configured to run at boot When I receive a message the notifiaction is working fine but when I click on the notification an empty squared windows named Geary opens but there is nothing in it. I can close it and try to open Geary multiple times, the same window will show every time. But I can stil receive notifiactions of new messages The only way I found to make it work again is a "sudo killall geary" and the re-run geary Hope it helps Thanks
Pushed to master, commit 901314
This bug shows as RESOLVED FIXED but I still see the problem when running Geary 0.10.0 I encounter the exactly same problem as g_goessel@outlook.com described previously. The only way to make geary work again is by killing geary and restarting it. I came across this bug but maybe the original description of the bug and what's happening to g_goessel and me are a different bug. So I'm willing to open another bug is that's necessary.