Cannot go to the Schematic/Layout editor using toolbar buttons anymore

Software
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In the past I used to use the toolbar button to “Open in board editor” and the “Open in Schematic Editor” to open the Board/Schematic editor but also to go to the editor if it is already open…

Right now in this version, it does not behave the same way anymore.

If the Board/Schematic editor is already open, then KiCad throws me the annoying “File opening warning” popup saying the Schematic/Layout is already open. If I say, “Open it anyway”, it will launch a new instance of the tool instead of focusing on the already opened one.

Application: KiCad PCB Editor x86_64 on x86_64

Version: 7.0.9-7.0.9~ubuntu23.10.1, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.2
	FreeType 2.13.1
	HarfBuzz 8.0.1
	FontConfig 2.14.2
	libcurl/8.2.1 OpenSSL/3.0.10 zlib/1.2.13 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.5.5 libidn2/2.3.4 libpsl/0.21.2 (+libidn2/2.3.3) libssh/0.10.5/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.55.1 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.6.6

Platform: Ubuntu 23.10, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, ubuntu, x11

Build Info:
	Date: Nov  8 2023 19:00:56
	wxWidgets: 3.2.2 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.74.0
	OCC: 7.6.3
	Curl: 8.2.1
	ngspice: 40
	Compiler: GCC 13.2.0 with C++ ABI 1018

Build settings:
	KICAD_SPICE=ON
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Another annoying thing is that if I click “cancel” to not open another instance of the Editor with the current schematics/layout it will not open it but it will leave an empty instance of the editor there.

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Are you running the pcb editor standalone instead of opening inside the KiCad project manager?

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No. I am running a complete project, I also launched it with the main Kicad project window.

Something different I did this time was to use the “curved tracks” plugin which generated a new kicad_pcb file inside the same project (but with a different name). However, I am not editing that file. I am going to remove it to check if changes something.

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After closing Kicad, and removing the files indicated with an arrow in this list it started to behave normal again.

Untracked files:
	#auto_saved_files#
	board-rounded.kicad_pcb <=======
	board-rounded.kicad_pro <=======
	board.round-tracks-config <=======
	~board.kicad_sch.lck
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I have 7.0.9 on windows 11. the icon works fine. Perhaps it is only on the Linux version.

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Works as intended on Linux. 7.0.9. If the desired editor is already open it switches to that window.

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Yeah, It stared to work fine after closing kicad and launching it again. That’s weird.

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