219708 - opening a new window on a different screen/display

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Mikhail T.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; uk-UA; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030716
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; uk-UA; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030716

When using multiple X-screens attached to the same workstation, one is forced to
use different profiles currently.

Instead, Mozilla should detect such setup and offer a choice of display when
creation of a new window is requested, either through File->New->Navigator
Window or through the Window->Composer/Mail/etc.

The detection can work by detecting the multiple screens of the current display
(:0.0, :0.1 as I have) and/or by reading the user's .Xauthority file. The user
should also have an option of entering a new value of DISPLAY. The default
should be the current display, of course.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. File
2. New
3. Navigator Window

Actual Results:  
New window opened on the same screen

Expected Results:  
Offer a choice of available screens and an option to enter a new value.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

GTK has no support for multiple displays, so this is not possible with the GTK
Mozilla builds (the "normal" Unix builds) at this time.  I don't know whether it
will ever be possible technically (blizzard should know better), but UI for this
would _definitely_ be an extension and not part of any core browser mozilla.org
ships.

Comment 2

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Actually, gtk 2.2 and later have support for multiple displays.