From: Jim Procter <jprocter@issues.jalview.org>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 10:50:19 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: JAL-3009 news reader thread should be in background. TODO: patch newsreader so it... 
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JAL-3009 news reader thread should be in background. TODO: patch newsreader so it uses GUI thread for displaying itself ?

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diff --git a/src/jalview/gui/Desktop.java b/src/jalview/gui/Desktop.java
index 8f04576..259e693 100644
--- a/src/jalview/gui/Desktop.java
+++ b/src/jalview/gui/Desktop.java
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ public class Desktop extends jalview.jbgui.GDesktop
   {
     final Desktop me = this;
     // Thread off the news reader, in case there are connection problems.
-    addDialogThread(new Runnable()
+    new Thread(new Runnable()
     {
       @Override
       public void run()
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ public class Desktop extends jalview.jbgui.GDesktop
         showNews.setVisible(true);
         Cache.log.debug("Completed news thread.");
       }
-    });
+    }).start();
   }
 
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