Comment 55 for bug 78538

Nick Bowler's comment on 11/26/07 reflected exactly my perspective on this issue. I am writing an application that uses the Java Desktop class to open a URL for on-line help, and I'd like to be able to make the help come up on the same screen that our application is running. However, personally I prefer to keep my own browser on a single screen as Nick described.

There is already a preference setting for opening new links in new-window/new-tab/same-window. Perhaps the new-window option could obey the screen number of the screen on which the command line was invoked, but the other options could use the existing window. The OpenURL command sent by XRemoteClient would simply have to provide the screen number for optional use by the target process.

I haven't seen Firefox's Xlib code, but the API makes it easy to open windows on specific screens (without passing screen numbers very far around the code).