GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 104612
[multihead] problems with --display
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
In a multihead setup with 2 screens, If I open gnome-terminal from the primary screen like gnome-terminal --display :0.1 or gnome-terminal --screen 1 the terminal is opened in the secondary screen. When I open gnome-calculator from the terminal in the secondary screen which is started by the above method calculator opens in the primary screen. When I did a echo $DISPLAY in the above terminal it gives :0.0 though it is opened in the secondary screen (:0.1). Simillar things happens with gnome-calculator. 1. gnome-calculator --display :0.1 (from a terminal in primary screen) 2. gnome-calculator comes in the secondary screen 3. Invoke help from gnome-calculator, the help is displayed in primary screen instead of the secondary screen One more thing is 1. open gnome-terminal in the secondary screen, either from the Applications menu or by right clicking on the secondary screen desktop 2. Invoke help of the terminal, help is displayed in the secondary screen 3. Save session and then logout and login 4. terminal and the help contents come in the secondary screen as expected 5. If the help of the terminal is invoked again it is opened in the primary screen 6. Same applies to all applications. Thanks.
You need to file the stuff about help as a separate bug against libgnomeui, rather than against gnome-terminal. The gnome-terminal problem is solvable by setting DISPLAY properly in the environment of its child process.
I think this is basically gnome-terminal / gnome help issues that should be filed separately rather than anything related to GTK+. (Dup'ing on an earlier similar bug report.) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99461 ***