Re: disable "tabs" in meld window

[Kai <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 at 15:40, Fourhundred Thecat <400thecat gmx ch> wrote:

Hello,

when meld opens new window, it actually shows a tab (similar to browser
tab). Presumably, if other instance is opened this will open second tab
in existing window, instead of second window. Same as with browsers.

Is it possible to disable this functionality?

There's no way to do this in 3.20 without editing code, but this has changed to be the default in the unstable 3.21.x. The commit that changed this is https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/-/commit/133aaccfcb32ed7c5778fbbd8f76bf609d09ba35, which you could probably apply to 3.20.x, though I haven't tried.

 

Having the instances be completely separate is a different problem which requires a flag to disable the application session management. This is annoying to do right for a few reasons, and there's an open issue for it.

cheers,

Kai