To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=105615 Issue #|105615 Summary|OOo disrespects DISPLAY: opens new window in wrong dis |play Component|framework Version|OOO300m9 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P2 Subcomponent|ui Assigned to|tm Reported by|nathaniel_
------- Additional comments from [email protected] Mon Oct 5 12:47:33 +0000 2009 ------- Situation: An OOo window such as oowriter is open on an X11 display e.g. "hostname:0.0". The same user, but on another display e.g. "hostname:5.0" (perhaps a vnc session or ssh login) then opens another document in OOo. Expectation: When an OOo window is called with the environment set to a particular display, such as "hostname:5.0", then it should open the requested window on that display. It doesn't matter which user asked it, or what else that user might be doing on other displays or hosts: the DISPLAY environment means that that's where to open things, and it's very confusing for a user to get no apparent response after trying to open a file. What actually happens: In the above situation, documents opened from display "hostname:5.0" pop up on "hostname:0.0" apparently just because there already was a (separate) OOo window open there. It's not even as though they open in the /same/ window -- they just open separately, but on that wrong display. Previous bug reports: I see that this has already been mentioned some years ago: #57905 'Writer window opens in wrong display' and an apparently similar problem with the minor number in the display (e.g. "hostname:0.1") has also been brought up: #71657 'New windows open on the "wrong" display' #81872 'X11 - some documents open in wrong display' Finale: Perhaps some wrong decisions long ago have made it very hard to change, for what is probably not a very frequently noticed problem. I'd understand this. But really, this matter of display use is very fundamental: /thousands/ of applications cope with it fine, realising that one should always regard the host:display.screen (or at least host:display) as the thing that defines a particular session, not just hostname:user. One might expect funny behaviour from the occasional proprietary program ported from e.g. ms-windows; but not from something as mainstream as openoffice. Is this 'framework' matter still considered to be irredeemable? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
