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Bug 79337 - Galeon tries to reuse existing process on different display
Galeon tries to reuse existing process on different display
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 69260
Product: galeon
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
1.2.0
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Yanko Kaneti
Yanko Kaneti
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-04-20 19:55 UTC by tshumway
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
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Description tshumway 2002-04-20 19:55:19 UTC 
When Galeon starts up, it tries to reuse an existing process/window. This
is good, but the current logic does not account for that existing
process/window being on another display.

To reproduce:

start a VNC server from your normal gnome session
start a VNC viewer connected to localhost:1
start galeon on the VNC display
start galeon on the normal display
 result: a message "galeon already started, using existing process"
         galeon opens a new window/tab on the VNC display.

problem:
 Unless both displays are visible, the user will probably be confused about
why galeon does not appear.

solution:
 The stub process that finds the running instance, should tell that
instance which display has requested a window.


note: 
 I marked this as a minor bug, because I think very few people would
normally be running in this type of environment. I discovered it only
because I started a local session while forgetting that I had already
started a VNC session the previous day.
Comment 1 Yanko Kaneti 2002-04-21 08:21:28 UTC 
Galeon cant reuse the same process for a diffrent display, you would
have to run two instances, but this is not safe right now.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69260 ***