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Quicklauncher does not open applications on correct X screen
Status:
RESOLVED: WONTFIX
Product:
Xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin
Component:
General

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Description Jason Melton 2008-08-25 09:16:25 CEST
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072820 Firefox/3.0.1
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When using the quicklauncher plugin on a secondary X screen, the applications open on the primary X screen, not the X screen on which the panel resides.

The "Launcher" plugin successfully launches on the same X screen where the panel resides.

Attempting to specify the screen to use through something like "DISPLAY=:0.1 foo" does not work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
With a xfce4-panel running on a "second" X screen:
1. Add quicklauncher to the panel.
2. Add a new command to the quicklauncher such as "xfce4-terminal"
3. Click on the new command's icon.



Actual Results:  
The application is opened on the primary X screen.

Expected Results:  
The appliaction should have opened on the X screen containing the panel.

The workaround is to use the "Launcher" plugin to launch applications, rather than the "Quicklauncher"

The panel in general will "flip-flop" between the X screens when opening dialogs and windows.

That is, if the panel is on the second X screen, it seems some things will open on the "correct" X screen, and some will open on the "primary" X screen.
Comment 1 Christoph Wickert editbugs 2009-09-09 17:55:17 CEST
Ubuntu has a patch for this:
http://patches.ubuntu.com/x/xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin/extracted/01_fix-multiscreen.patch
Comment 2 Masse Nicolas 2009-09-10 21:17:15 CEST
I've applied the patch, but when trying to commit, I get this error:
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Can't open activity db

:(
Comment 3 Yves-Alexis Perez editbugs 2010-12-19 21:16:02 CET
*** Bug 6941 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Landry Breuil editbugs 2014-11-23 21:42:51 CET
Mass-reassign all bugs from florian@ to goodies-dev@, thanks for the maintenance work! (and sorry for the bugmail spam..)
Comment 5 Skunnyk editbugs 2018-09-22 16:43:42 CEST
This project has been archived, so we are closing related bugs.

Bug #4323

Reported by:
Jason Melton
Reported on: 2008-08-25
Last modified on: 2018-09-22
Duplicates (1):
  • 6941 programs are run on wrong screen when using “zaphod mode” dual screen

People

Assignee:
Xfce-Goodies Maintainers
CC List:
2 users

Version

Version:
unspecified

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