Description of problem: When the DISPLAY variable (or equivalently the value of the command line switch --display) is of form :NNNN.M then the gnome-terminal opens on the console display (:0.0). Specifically If DISPLAY=:NNNN.M, then gnome-terminal opens on DISPLAY=:0.0 regardless of the value of NNNN.M If DISPLAY=localhost:NNNN.M, then gnome-terminal opens up properly on :NNNN.M Note that gnome-terminal worked fine on older versions (e.g., gnome-terminal-2.16.0-2.fc6). Also, note that other X terminal programs like xterm do not have this problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-terminal-2.18.3-1.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fire up an X-server that is on localhost but is not the console (:0.0) E.g., run vncserver and then access the corresponding vnc screen. 2. Assuming you are running vncserver with a session on localhost:1.0. Go to the vnc session and type: DISPLAY=:1.0 gnome-terminal 3. You will see that the gnome-terminal shows up on :0.0 rather than on :1.0 Actual results: gnome-terminal launches on :0.0 Expected results: gnome-terminal should launch on :1.0
Anybody following this bug????
Hello??? Anybody looking into this bug?
No. Does that help? Try passing --disable-factory to gnome-terminal. That will work.
disable-factory is a workaround but DOES NOT fix the bug. This is still a bug and has been noted as such in other distros such as Ubuntu and Debian. One posting on Ubuntu suggested that it had already been fixed upstream in later versions (version 2.18 is not current). Having an X program not properly recognize either the DISPLAY variable or "--display" switch is a CLEAR and OBVIOUS bug. You may choose not to fix it but please do not close this as "not a bug" because it very clearly is.
Fair enough. However: - I'm not going to fix it here. - If you want it fixed, report upstream at bugzilla.gnome.org please. - Actually trying with gnome-terminal-2.18.3-1.fc8 I can't reproduce the problem.
OK - I will report upstream. But please keep as an open bug so that others can note it. Also, you may not have been able to reproduce because I left out one detail. To get the problem to occur you need to run the command: DISPLAY=:1.0 gnome-terminal 0r gnome-terminal --display :1.0 FROM something OTHER than the gnome session with display :1.0. In fact, that is the whole problem. That new gnome-terminals are always opened in the current session regardless of how you set the display. In fact, it also works the other way around. If you run gnome-terminal --display :0.0 from a gnome session on :1.0, the gnome terminal will open in :1.0 and will IGNORE the display setting. Please do me a favor and see if you get this behavior because if not then I need to figure out why we are seeing different results with the same supposed setup.
As I said it works here. I start a vnc display using: $ vncserver :1 The in my current gnome-terminal which is running on :0 I do: $ DISPLAY=:1.0 gnome-terminal and it doesn't open a new one in :0. Keeping it open here doesn't help because there's nothing as the Fedora maintainer of gnome-terminal I'm going to do about it.
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Still a problem in Fedora 20. I realize it is an upstream decision from the Gnome team, but this is an egregious regression in functionality.