* 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 -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
