[ale] X Multiple Screens, Firefox

[Dow_Hurst]

Actually the situation is a bit more complex:

If I ssh -X to another machine and try to open a remote Firefox instance to be displayed on my local machine, then that fails to happen if I have local Firefox running already on my local machine.  Isn't that weird?  I can kill the current local Firefox and repeat the remote command to start Firefox on the remote machine, then Firefox runs on the remote machine and displays properly on the local machine.  I never had this effect with the old Netscape or Mozilla.  Why is this happening?  The problems your having Michael seem very related to this issue too.
Dow


-----Original Message-----
>From: "Michael B. Trausch" <fd0man at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 5, 2007 12:37 PM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: [ale] X Multiple Screens, Firefox
>
>I have a little bit of a problem, and I am sure that there is a way
>around it but I can't seem to conceive it myself.
>
>I am using X in a multi-screen configuration (e.g., not Xinerama, but
>actual multiple screens; my current configuration has the screens :0.0
>and :0.1).  I rather like it, other than the fact that 3D has to be
>disabled (bug in my video driver apparently to be fixed with the next
>release of X.org).  Anyway, I like the idea that you can have software
>running on their own screens and that they're separate.  However, I have
>one little annoyance with Firefox:  It seems to refuse to start another
>process on Screen 0 (I usually use it on Screen 1) if I click a link on
>Screen 0.
>
>So, short of having it attempt to start on whatever screen I am on, is
>there a way to make it such that Firefox will just do the right thing
>(e.g., open a tab on the browser instance running in the other
>$DISPLAY?)  Or, is there a way that anyone knows of to have an
>application that doesn't do this on its own, be able to be split amongst
>different screens?
>
>    Thanks,
>    Mike
>
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