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Bug 719438 - gnome-terminal will not open on second screen
gnome-terminal will not open on second screen
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-11-27 17:29 UTC by Bruce Guenter
Modified: 2021-06-10 20:38 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
Corrects so gnome-terminal displays the window on correct screen (863 bytes, patch)
2014-02-06 17:50 UTC, Dan 		rejected Details | Review

Description Bruce Guenter 2013-11-27 17:29:56 UTC 
I am running gnome 3.10 on a "zaphod" dual-screen setup.

gnome-terminal will not open a new window on any screen other than :0.0. I have tried using both $DISPLAY set to :0.1 or the option --display :0.1. The new terminal always opens on the screen :0.0. This behavior is the same if the gnome-terminal-server is running or not.
Comment 1 van.de.bugger 2014-01-10 11:03:29 UTC 
I confirm. I have the same problem.
Comment 2 Dan 2014-02-06 17:50:51 UTC 
Created attachment 268317 [details] [review]
Corrects so gnome-terminal displays the window on correct screen
Comment 3 Dan 2014-02-06 17:55:42 UTC 
My attached patch fixes the problem.

This behavior makes gnome-terminal unusable.
The current code (at least of 3.10.2) assumes that display :0.0 and :0.1 and :0.2 etc all are the same display. That may be correct in some cases but not always. On my system they are all different displays.

The patch treats each display name as a different display. I do not know if this is bad for those where :0.0 and :0.1 are the same display - somebody with that configuration have to check that.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-06-10 20:38:17 UTC 
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