[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#715313: Bug#715313: xfce4-appfinder: Always displays on :0.0 (does not honor $DISPLAY)

[Mark Kamichoff]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 07:45:14AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> I think the same thing will happen with xfce4-terminal once the first
> window is opened (see
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710002 for example).

Ah, I was unaware of this.  Interesting.  It appears that
--disable-server is a workaround for this issue with xfce4-appfinder,
too.

> xfce4-appfinder is actually run (as xfrun) as part of the session
> startup in order to start fast when you call xfrun. That also means
> the window will inherit settings of that process, for example the
> $DISPLAY.
> 
> I'm not too sure there are ways to workaround that. I'll forward the
> bug upstream but in any case, you have to know that multiple $DISPLAY
> is not usually something really supported when it comes to
> dbus-activated services.

Thank you!

- Mark

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Mark Kamichoff
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http://www.prolixium.com/
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