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

Electrosa's profile image Electrosa posted 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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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