Two Desktops, Two Monitors, One Firefox.

servo888 · Apprentice Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 293

I'm having some issues with running firefox on my two monitor two kde instance display setup. It seems once I start firefox on one desktop, each time I load up firefox (on any desktop) it opens it on the first desktop. So if I open up firefox on desktop one, and try to open up firefox on desktop two it will load the new window on desktop one. I think it has something to do with the profiles that firefox has - but I don't get that 'profile in use' pop menu (so it might not be that). If you don't quite understand my two display setup, the way it works is I have setup two monitors and screens in the xorg.conf, as well as two devices (I have a dual head nvidia card). So then I startx on display 0:0 and the window manager opens up a second desktop on display 0:1. This way I get 3d acceleration on both screens, and can run on different resolutions without using virtual displays.

If anybody could help me out that would be great.
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Arno Nymous · Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 5:43 am Post subject:

firefox --help shows this option:

cybermatthieu · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 77

Hi,
I have the same problem here! No solution yet but still searching...

I'll let you know if I find anything,
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bitwise · Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:08 am Post subject:

the mozilla-launcher script is most likely to blame. have a look at it in /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher. I'm tired as hell, but it looks like the 'find_running()' function is what you want to look at. You'd have to trick the new window to open on a different display, simply getting it to run a new instance won't work due to the profiles issue you mentioned.

Dlareh · Advocate Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 2102

I use the portage version in screen 1, and a binary installed manually from www.mozilla.org on screen 2. That way when it crashes on one screen, at least I don't lose whatever is running on the other screen.

Plus whenever firefox gets confused and locks up the whole instance, the other instance is responsive...
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cybermatthieu · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 77

Hi,
For now I'm using firefox on one screen and mozilla on the other... They are really similar.
But I took a look at the laucher script and It looks like he could be responsible for this.

Matt

sawatts · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 23 Location: Hampshire, UK

(bump)

Same situation as original poster here -- dual display, but Firefox only started on one display. *Very* irritating.

Tried invoking 'firefox -display $DISPLAY' from the second display (with firefox running on the first). This gets me to the mozilla profile dialog, since profile 'default' is already in use. Don't really want to have to mess around with seperate profiles for each display...

I see that 'mozilla-launcher' script is setting the 'DISPLAY' envar in the 'try_running()' script - presumable to the display on which it found the running instance?

Is it possible, at all, to run Firefox on two displays from the same profile? There shouldn't be any technical reason why not -- other than assumptions built into the code?

pioto · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:52 pm Post subject:

je_fro · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:56 pm Post subject: anything yet?

Anybody found a fix for this yet? Having FF on only one or the other monitor is a huge pita.

Even if I do:

xaos5 · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:45 pm Post subject:

twinview supports 3d accel on both monitors and also different resolutions on each display. easy way to do it is setup twinview in my opinion.
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je_fro · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:51 pm Post subject:

that might work, but I don't want twinview.
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xaos5 · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:02 pm Post subject:

not sure what to tell you then, I have no experience there.
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je_fro · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 11:27 am Post subject: hmm...

Looks like this one isn't going to get fixed unless I do it myself...

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285954

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319965

Funny that mozilla works flawlessly though.....
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trolley · Apprentice Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 292 Location: Canada

I have a dual head setup using the proprietary ATI drivers. If I try to run Firefox on my second monitor it opens on my first. Any ideas how to fix that?

desultory · Administrator Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 6901

Merged the above post.

je_fro · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:46 am Post subject:

here's my bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319965
I don't have a lot of hope in getting it fixed...what I've done in the meantime is to create another user "screen1" and add all my ~/.mozilla files to his homedir.
I can launch firefox on screen1 now with "sudo -u screen1 -H /opt/firefox/firefox-bin"
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trolley · Apprentice Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 292 Location: Canada

gr0x0rd · Apprentice Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 273

Three and a half years later and still no logical solution. Just upgraded to FF3, and in doing so unmerged epiphany, which wants to pull ff2 back in. Been using epiphany on my second display to watch live sports until now... lame. Looks like I'm going back to FF2.
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desultory · Administrator Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 6901

gr0x0rd · Apprentice Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 273

thanks d, I just found this at gentoo bugzilla as well and came back to update this thread... I had to do an emerge --sync first as well

be warned, xulrunner takes a while to compile.
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