285954 - Cannot open windows on both screens of a non-xinerama dual-head X11 display.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 319965

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Adam M. Costello]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050210 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-6)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050210 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-6)

I have tried various combinations of -display and DISPLAY= and -remote, but I
have been unable to get firefox to open windows on both screens of my X display.
 After running firefox on one screen (say :0.0), any attempt to open a window on
the other screen (:0.1) either results in a complaint that there is no window
there to talk to, or a complaint that firefox is already running and therefore I
need to select a different profile (but I don't want to have to keep two
profiles in sync just to use both screens).

This is a traditional non-xinerama two-screen configuration.  (I don't want
xinerama because I want to be able to unplug the external monitor from the
laptop and start more applications without any risk that they land on the other
screen where I can't see them).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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