2 small mint7 issues

[smsmith]

1. Firefox not exiting correctly
When i close firefox, it's window exits correctly, but the process stays running in the background. When i then try to open in again it says "Firefox is already running..." and i have to kill the process manually before i can restart firefox... Any ideas?

See if running Firefox in safe mode and exiting continues to have problems closing. Could just be an extension causing the problem.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox

You can also try using a new clean profile and see if things run better on exit.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_manager

2. Dolphin is now in 'Single Click to Open' mode
I most definatly prefer the double click to open mode, so i can select a file without having it open. (And I usually "Open With" rather then a straight open anyways). Any way to revert this? had a quick scan of the preferences and couldn't find the option...

Take a look in System Settings -> Keyboard & Mouse, Mouse, General Tab. Intuitive, I know.

Or, Dolphin, Settings -> Configure Dolphin -> Navigation.

[lagagnon]

1. you must have a Firefox zombie process already loaded. Open a terminal and type "ps aux | grep firefox". After your login name for each process is the 4 digit process ID. You can kill off the older one with "sudo kill -9 PID" where PID is the process ID #. That should do it.

2. Type "Ctrl F2" to raise the run application dialog box. Type "gconf-editor". Navigate to /schemas/apps/nautilus/preferences/click_policy and change it to double.

[smsmith]

2. Type "Ctrl F2" to raise the run application dialog box. Type "gconf-editor". Navigate to /schemas/apps/nautilus/preferences/click_policy and change it to double.

Maybe I'm missing something. It's possible, as I've only been using Linux for about a month and a half now...

This thread was posted about KDE, specifically Dolphin, having behavior that was undesired. Your solution is to use a gnome configuration editor to change a setting for nautilus. How is that supposed to help? I'm really being serious. Maybe there's something to this I don't know. But on my system, neither gconf-editor nor nautilus are installed.

Mint 7 KDE CE.

[lagagnon]

Sorry - my error - missed the Dolphin thing!

[smsmith]

I just wanted to make sure I was missing something, too! About the only thing that worked for me was pressing ALT+F2!

[Fred]

smsmith wrote:

I like poetry, long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.

How does that workout for you if the dead thing is in fact asleep? I am thinking bear!

Fred

[smsmith]

Hi Fred! Yeah, you have to be careful about the things you poke!