Bug 67678 – firefox / mozilla-launcher script ignores $DISPLAY and crashes on --display=

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Greg Watson (linuxkrn) 2004-10-15 09:54:09 UTC]

When running more then one X server locally, firefox will crash if you try to launch it on another server when it's already running somewhere else.

Steps:

1) Launch firefox on :0.0
2) Move to server :0.1 launch firefox
3) Firefox opens on display :0.0 even though local $DISPLAY is set to :0.1

Method 2
1) Launch firefox on :0.0
2) Try to force display :0.1 by running firefox --display=:0.1
3) /usr/bin/firefox: line 88: 11857 Segmentation fault      $mozbin "$@"


net-www/mozilla-launcher 1.21
net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0_pre-r2
x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r2
x11-wm/fvwm-fvwm-2.5.12

[Comment 1 Greg Watson (linuxkrn) 2004-10-31 07:51:22 UTC]

bug still exists with 

mozilla-launcher-1.22
mozilla-firefox-1.0_rc1

[Comment 2 Greg Watson (linuxkrn) 2004-10-31 07:52:19 UTC]

Created attachment 43016 [details]
added -x to bash script for log

[Comment 3 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-11-15 14:24:19 UTC]

:0.0 and :0.1 are the same X display, different screens.  You can only run one instance of firefox per display normally.  If you want to run firefox on different screens then you need to either run X with Xinerama enabled (and build firefox with USE=xinerama) or run multiple instances with different profiles, using -ProfileManager to create new ones