This only happens if you use the hotkey ctrl-w to close the window.
This is why I stated using the x to close the window. 

Continuously opening up new blank documents... it's annoying as heck. :)
-C

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Tobias Ellinghaus <houz@...173...> wrote:
On Sunday 19 June 2016 22:30:27 C R wrote:
> > What do you know about why if you close the last opened file, close the
> > entire program too?, and why if open various files, open various windows
> > of
> > the program?
>
> You may have noticed that Inkscape opens windows for each file that's open.
> In fact, if you open inkscape without specifying a file (like from the
> program icon or command line) it will open up a new document.
>
> This is in contrast to programs like GIMP which open up each file in a tab
> inside one program window.
> It makes sense for GIMP to keep the program open when the last file is gone
> because you can open a new file and it becomes a tab in the window.
> Since Inkscape opens up a window for each file, if there are no files,
> there are no windows. :)
> So if you wanted Inkscape to stay open... what would you see? Should it pop
> up another empty file?

Actually, that's what Inkscape does since quite a while.

> -C

Tobias

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