Calling zeal twice without a query parameter should raise the window instead of doing nothing

[edgimar]

When running zeal more than once without a query parameter, one gets the message "Already running. Terminating." and then the program exits. It would be better if it would trigger the already-running instance to raise itself if it is hidden. If there's a problem with making this the default behavior, then at least there should be an additional commandline option which does this.

[amclain]

I second this. I ran into an issue where there was no way in the GUI to restore Zeal after hiding it. It's also helpful for those of us who spend a lot of time in the command prompt. Having the window restore after executing the zeal command would be convenient.

[RossBarnie]

+1 Got this now and can't seem to bring up zeal at all even after killing the original process. Probably a separate bug.

[amclain]

@RossBarnie I figured out the workaround for that problem is to open up the Zeal config file (~/.config/Zeal/Zeal.conf) and change the following parameters:

hidingBehavior=minimize
startupBehavior=window

Then if you restart the process, the window should come back up. Unfortunately it looks like setting both the hiding and startup behavior to system tray causes the window to be hidden permanently. This is also referenced in issue #128.

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