[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#710002: Bug#710002: xfce4-terminal: Opening on second desktop closes terminals on first desktop

[n0nb at n0nb.us (Nate Bargmann)]

* On 2013 27 May 12:35 -0500, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On lun., 2013-05-27 at 07:34 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > Even clearing all Xfce configuration files in my home directory and
> > starting fresh did not correct this behavior.  Is this a regression or
> > expected behavior?
> 
> I'm not sure. Zaphod is not exactly frequent these days, so it might
> not be really tested. Note that xfce4-terminal uses by a default a
> client/server model, where only one process is running for all terminal
> windows. When a new process is opened, it first tries a dbus call to
> see if another process is already running and if so, ask it to open a
> new window.

I understand that Zaphod is on the obsolecence path.  While this is
off-topic for this report, a pointer to doing the same with two screens
another way would be useful to me.  All I seem to find are guides to an
extended desktop across monitors but that is not useful to me.

> In your case, it might be that opening a terminal on the second screen
> contacts the process running on the first one and ask it to open a
> terminal on the second one, which somehow fails.
> 
> It might help to see how exactly it fails (does it crash?). You could
> also try with xfce4-terminal --disable-server.

I will try that when I get back to that machine and see how it works.

Thanks!

- Nate

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