Understood with workaround -Dbl SM icons

[Grumpus]

Noticed on Ubuntu Unity sidebar where start icons are located.
Clicking on the SeaMonkey icon adds an identical icon which appears to be the active one.
Clicking on the original icon opens another instance of SeaMonkey. (maybe window not sure)
Is this normal?
Installed with Ubuntuzilla. Version 2.40

[Grumpus]

Maybe this helps?
screenshot

[Frank Lion]

Is this normal?

Nope. Start icons are controlled by the OS/Desktop Manager, I think. Those sidebars can be edited to add stuff, so try editing the extra SM one away.

[Anonymosity]

I see something similar with the first restart of SeaMonkey on Mac OS. I get a second SeaMonkey icon on the dock. Subsequent restarts during the same session do not create extra icons. I saw that with older versions, but with this version it seems to be a recent happening. Why it started again I have no idea.

[Grumpus]

Thanks Frank Lion and Anonymosity.
If I unlock the SeaMonkey icon from the Unity Sidebar so none show and use the Search Your Computer and Online Sources icon, clicking on the SeaMonkey icon there does not create a second icon on the sidebar.
However if I lock the icon when SeaMonkey is open or if I drag SeaMonkey icon from the Search Your Computer area the icon double.
Deleting either of the icons closes SeaMonkey.
Trying to re-open too soon creates a third icon.

[DanRaisch]

Moving to MozillaZine Tech as this seems to be something outside of SeaMonkey.

[Grumpus]

@Anonymosity - It may be more the way it relates to the Unity setup with some folks using the traditional normal Gnome setup.
The start icons went on panels without the relationship to the Search Your Computer and Online Sources part of the desktop.

[Anonymosity]

@Anonymosity - It may be more the way it relates to the Unity setup with some folks using the traditional normal Gnome setup.
The start icons went on panels without the relationship to the Search Your Computer and Online Sources part of the desktop.

I have no idea what a Unity setup is, and things on the Mac OS dock do not work in the way suggested. I cannot edit things from the dock, but only exit them, hide or show them, remove them, open at login, or show them in the Finder (the shell app for accessing files).

[Grumpus]

@Anonymosity - Search Your Computer and Online Sources is an icon at the top of the sidebar which has several folders, one of which shows the icons of recent packages used, other folders show files, and the entire list of softwares for use in Ubuntu. The Unity sidebar allows for the docking of icons much like a panel so you don't have to use the Search Your Computer and Online Sources icon. If I can solve the duplicate icon by opening SeaMonkey from the list of icons in the Search Your Computer and Online Sources area, it should be fine. I don't put too much stuff on the sidebar and it's almost as quick. Just an observation, a number of people stopped using Ubuntu due to the incursion of AWS through the Search Your Computer and Online Sources. It takes a lot to break the connection to AWS and it's constant suggestions. Might as well figure this understood, not solved with a workaround.

[Davebuntu]

I don't know why Canonical stopped putting SeaMonkey in the Ubuntu repo.

[Grumpus]

Could be version issue.
Ubuntu sometimes stops updating some packages and carries the newer version over to the next operating system update. i.e Trusty to Xenial?
Doesn't seem to be always applied in the LTS versions lately.
I got SeaMonkey from Ubuntuzilla repos.
If the SeaMonkey folks came out with a "Debian all" package that should work using dpkg or Gdebi and would alleviate some of the issues with using a tarball or Ubuntuzilla.
That might help but it depends on Canonical and what kind of changes they want to implement in the new version of the OS.
Might be they also want to see how things progress in general with browsers.

[Davebuntu]

Sounds about right.