bug: 345595
title: Applications launched from the menu running on DISPAY=:0.1 are opened on DISPLAY=:0.0
date-reported: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:31:33 -0000
date-updated: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:03:37 -0000
reporter: Gavin Robertson (ubuntu-tatooine)
duplicate-of: 290935
duplicates: 
attachments: 
patches: 
tags: 
subscribers: 
 Gavin Robertson (ubuntu-tatooine)
 Stefano Angeleri (weltall)

task: gnome-main-menu (Ubuntu)
status: New
date-created: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:31:33 -0000
reporter: Gavin Robertson (ubuntu-tatooine)
importance: Undecided
component: universe
assignee: 
milestone: 

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7544065426752139485=="
MIME-Version: 1.0

--===============7544065426752139485==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Binary package hint: gnome-main-menu

When running dual monitors with separate X screens, anything launched
from the menu running on DISPLAY=3D:0.1 is opened on DISPLAY=3D:0.0, it
should open on the same display i.e. DISPLAY=3D:0.1

Anything launched via "Run Application" dialog (ALT+F2) or from a
terminal running on DISPLAY=3D:0.1 is opened correctly on DISPLAY=3D:0.1

lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release:	9.04

apt-cache policy libgnome2-0
libgnome2-0:
  Installed: 2.26.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.26.0-0ubuntu1
--===============7544065426752139485==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Author: Stefano Angeleri (weltall)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:04:53 -0000
Message-Id: <20090421170453.26152.33079.malone@potassium.ubuntu.com>

I can definitely confirm this!
Has been around since the first alpha I've tried and as of today it's still=
 there.
How to reproduce:
1- configure your xserver in order to have 2 separate x screens :0.0 and :0=
.1 no xinerama no twinview
2- at a first look the menu load correctly and you have two gnome panels as=
 expected one per monitor
3- try launching an app it opens on the first monitor :0.0 even if launched=
 from :0.1

the solution above works and that's how I've been working around the
issue. so it seems the enviroment variable DISPLAY isn't set correctly
causing this extreme usability bug which was not present on the previous
release of ubuntu. I hope this will be fixed soon because it hinders me
entirely from using my computer
--===============7544065426752139485==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Author: Diego Malatesta (diego-malatesta)
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 06:56:24 -0000
Message-Id: <20090505065625.3963.84583.malone@gandwana.canonical.com>

I can confirm the issue and I can say that It's really really annoying
for someone used to the dual screen workflow.
--===============7544065426752139485==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Author: keepitsimpleengr (keepitsimpleengineer)
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 16:16:20 -0000
Message-Id: <20090507161620.3733.82720.malone@palladium.canonical.com>

Why is this a duplicat of https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290935 ?

I have this behavior on my Ubuntu 9.04 amd64 and not the behavior
described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290935 .

This bug is reported upstream in
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D580103

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290935 is reported upstream in
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D561964
--===============7544065426752139485==--