Middle-click on the taskbar should open another instance of the program

Electrosa's profile image Electrosa posted 10 years ago in General Permalink
Hi!

One feature I miss a lot from HeidiSQL is middle-clicking on the program's icon on the task bar when Heidi is open. In almost all applications I usually work with, when you do that another app instance is open, but in Heidi nothing happens.

A brief video showing this feature: http://lifehacker.com/5806706/middle-click-on-the-taskbar-to-quickly-open-and-close-application-windows

As always, thanks for your work!!
ansgar's profile image ansgar posted 10 years ago Permalink
HeidiSQL of course does support that middleclick. But you may have blocked parallel instances of the application. You can enable/disable this in Tools > Preferences > General: "Allow multiple application instances".
Electrosa's profile image Electrosa posted 10 years ago Permalink
I have just checked that option and it was enabled. I tried disabling and re-enabling it again, but it still doesn't work.

I can open multiple instances of Heidi using the shortcut, but can't via middleclicking.

If I remember correctly, I had no problems with this some versions ago. I'll check it. Also I'm going to try with another computer.
Electrosa's profile image Electrosa posted 10 years ago Permalink
I have just tried with a fresh install of Windows 10 and middleclick does not work. In my main computer, where I have the problem, I'm using Windows 7.

PD: I've tested all versions available on the download page (from 8.2) and none worked for me :(
kalvaro's profile image kalvaro posted 10 years ago Permalink
I can confirm it doesn't work either in my Windows 7 box (64-bit build if that matters).
ansgar's profile image ansgar posted 10 years ago Permalink
Hm... Middleclick opens the session manager here. Did you perhaps activate the setting "Automatically reconnect to previously opened sessions on startup" ?
Electrosa's profile image Electrosa posted 10 years ago Permalink
Nope.

All my settings are the defaults. This morting I tested with a fresh install of both Heidi and Windows 10 (32 bits) and didn't work. My home OS is Windows 7 64 bits, so both arquitectures are affected - at least for me.

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