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When I close xchat to the system tray, it is leaving IRC connections to servers and consequent channels open and the process running. However, when the program is reopened from the system tray, it generates new processes, as if none were open and the program being run initially.

Is there any way to reinstate a program that has been closed to the system tray but has lost its links to the GUI? The pid is visible in the terminal. I was wondering if there is any way to achieve this from gnome desktop on a Debian based system.

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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  • What do you mean by “lost its links to the GUI”? Anyway “Closed to the system tray” is an application feature, not a system feature, so there can't be a generic way. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' May 29 '16 at 23:06
  • Well, it is leaving irc connections to servers and consequent channels open and the ps running; however when the program is reopened from the system tray, it generates new processes, as if none were open and the program being run initialy. That is why I mentioned "a theoretical link" between the system tray and the GUI, being broken. – iain May 30 '16 at 02:56
  • Ok, then this is a problem with xchat. What happens when you click on a system tray icon is entirely up to the program. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' May 30 '16 at 10:09

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