[Bug 1507652] Re: thunderbird main window can't be started from unity starter icon if email compose window is opened

[Bob Briscoe]

Solution: With the focus on the open compose window, select from menu:
Tools > Mail & Newsgroups [Ctrl+1]

There are related inconsistencies though.
* If an email is opened for reading in a new window, the shortcut key changes: Tools > Mail & Newsgroups [Alt+1]
* If only search, message filters, activity manager and preferences windows are open, no top level menus are visible and neither [Ctrl+1] nor [Alt+1] does anything.

The latter is a bug. However, there is a work-round that works in the other cases as well:
* Launcher > right click Thunderbird icon > "Compose New Message", which then gives access to the first solution above.

This problem is irritating for me, because I often have large numbers of
Thunderbird windows open, and until I found the above
solutions/workrounds, if I accidentally closed the main window (which I
have done many times),  in order to reopen it, I had to close all the
other windows, thus losing track of all my work-in-progress when I
restarted Thunderbird.

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  thunderbird main window can't be started from unity starter icon if
  email compose window is opened

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