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Beginners' Questions Windows issue opening multiple files
  1. #1
    sneezy sneezy @sneezy

    Hello,

    I am running Windows 10.  I initially installed Inscape 1.1.1 and just uninstalled and installed 1.1.2 with the same result.

    The problem:  When I open a second document, it opens in a second window and looks fine.  But as soon as I click into the first document, Inkscape continuously and rapidly swaps focus between the 2 documents in an endless loop. The program is unusable until I kill the process in Task Manager, or if I can catch the timing just right I can close 1 of the documents with the 'x' in the upper right.

    I have it installed on another Windows 10 laptop and don't have this issue, so I'm sure it must be related to my Windows 10 desktop - but I can't figure it out.  Just wondering if anyone has experienced anything similar and can point me in the right direction.

     

    Thanks!

  2. #2
    Tyler Durden Tyler Durden @TylerDurden

    Maybe this: https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/inkscape-problem-switching-back-and-forward-between-windows/

  3. #3
    sneezy sneezy @sneezy
    👍

    Thanks much - the workaround there - worked!

  4. #4
    Polygon Polygon @Polygon🌶

    The tabbed bar works here quite flawlessly:

  5. #5
    CaptainPouch CaptainPouch @CaptainPouch

    @Polygon How do you get the tabbed documents? Is it a Linux only thing? (I'm using Windows 11)

  6. #6
    Polygon Polygon @Polygon🌶

    Can´t tell as I´m on macOS only. Under View->Show Tab Bar I can enable it and can drag another open file into this tab bar.

  7. #7
    CaptainPouch CaptainPouch @CaptainPouch

    Thanks, not present on Win 11, looks useful. 

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