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Bug 316206 - opens window on wrong display
opens window on wrong display
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: High major
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
: 353748 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-09-13 13:58 UTC by Christian Persch
Modified: 2006-11-05 13:05 UTC
See Also:
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Description Christian Persch 2005-09-13 13:58:03 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
0) Start evince
1) Xnest -ac -scrns 2 1: &
2) DISPLAY=:1 evince

Result:
2nd window opened on screen :0, not :1.
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2005-09-13 14:06:17 UTC 
Err make that Xnest.... :1 not "1:"
Comment 2 Christian Persch 2005-09-14 11:22:09 UTC 
Evince probably needs to send the screen/display identifier along the openURI
DBUS call.

But the problem is wider: Evince needs to decide if it wants to use a
per-screen, per-display, or per-machine application model. See also Epiphany bug
112779 (esp. bug 112779 comment 13 ff). Evince is facing the same problem as
Epiphany, namely that profile needs to be shared but cannot be shared (here:
metadata file).
Comment 3 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2006-09-01 07:49:47 UTC 
*** Bug 353748 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2006-09-01 07:51:05 UTC 
This breaks evince on multihead desktops, bad news. No time for 2.16, but this bug should be high priority for the next release cycle.
Comment 5 Carlos Garcia Campos 2006-10-31 19:42:09 UTC 
I've just fixed it in cvs head.
Comment 6 Carlos Garcia Campos 2006-11-05 13:05:52 UTC 
It seems I forgot to close this bug. Marking fixed now.