I posted this at the mozilla forums, but I don't tend to get good replies there.

I upgraded to Thunderbird 24.1.0, and it's very "attention-seeking" compared to 24.0. Every time there is a new mail, TB inserts its window in the Task Manager in the panel, even if it's on a different desktop, flashing for attention.

For example (clickable image). Note the entry with the red border. Before I received this new mail, this window entry did not exist on this virtual desktop.


Is there a way to disable this behaviour in Thunderbird? I tried turning off "Show an alert". However, this only prevented the pop-up notifications from showing, and didn't change the "attention-seeking" window tab in the task manager.

Alternatively (more likely?), can you tell KDE to ignore the attention-getting attitude of Thunderbird? I can use window rules to skip pager, which works, but I'd prefer it to be in the pager normally, just not so attention-seeking!

(K)ubuntu 13.10
KDE 4.11.2
TB 24.1.0 from the Ubuntu repositories

Hi,

do use the FireTray addon? Release v0.4.7 added that feature.
v0.4.8 has a setting for it.

Best regards,
Andreas

Oh wow. Thanks so much for that! Excellent find. And thanks so much for posting, too.

For the record, FireTray preferences > Mail, and disable "Set X11 urgency hint".

sparhawk wrote:Oh wow. Thanks so much for that! Excellent find. And thanks so much for posting, too.

For the record, FireTray preferences > Mail, and disable "Set X11 urgency hint".

A recent update to FireTray 0.5.3 changed the location of this, and appeared to re-enable it. It's now in FireTray preferences > Mail > Window draws attention on new messages.