GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 670140
Nautilus uses only one screen
Last modified: 2016-12-05 14:20:41 UTC
Nautilus uses only one screen even if it is instructed to start on another screen. Reproduction: 1. start with a desktop having two screens setup (i.e. multihead), e.g. :0.1 and :0.0 2. issue in a terminal : DISPLAY=:0.0 nautilus --no-desktop & (or if you like: nautilus --no-desktop --display=:0.0 & ) 3. issue : DISPLAY=:0.1 nautilus --no-desktop & Expected: One nautilus windows in screen :0.0 and one in :0.1 Result: Two windows of nautilus appear on screen :0.0 Extra info: One can try the reverse , i.e :0.1 first and :0.0 then. The result is the same but both windows now appear in :0.1 instead of :0.0 and :0.1 . The behaviour does not change irrespectively of having started the terminal in screen :0.0 or :0.1 . Same behaviour if starting nautilus windows with alternate methods , e.g. windows manager commands, or menus . Subsequent, nautilus windows start only on the screen where the first windows has started.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 341307 ***