I have nvidia card with connected 3 monitors configurated as separate x screens.
Without patched nautilus: 1) I have white background on second and third screen. 2) All nautilus windows opens on primary/first screen With patched nautilus: 1) Background is ok on all screens. (this patch is included in merge proposal) 2) I can open nautilus window on any screen. (this patch is NOT included in merge proposal) Patch to allow open nautilus window on any screen is simple. It works by creating new instance of nautilus when opening on other screen. Patch is available here - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705317 Added these lines to nautilus_desktop_background_constructor function in libnautilus-private/nautilus-desktop-background.c ----- GdkScreen *screen = gtk_widget_get_screen(singleton->details->widget); g_printerr("Desktop background constructed for screen: %i\n", gdk_screen_get_number(screen)); ---- and these lines to nautilus_application_new function in src/nautilus-application.c ---- g_printerr("Application id: %s\n", application_id); ---- * Builded new packages and installed them. Opened terminal on all screens. * Killed nautilus running - killall nautilus. Opened System Monitor to see that nautilus is not running anymore. * Opened nautilus on first screen from terminal. Now there is one running instance for first screen with application id 'org.gnome.Nautilus.Display_0_0'. Background object is contructed only once for each screen. -- Application id: org.gnome.Nautilus.Display_0_0 Desktop background constructed for screen: 0 Desktop background constructed for screen: 1 Desktop background constructed for screen: 2 -- * Opened nautilus on next screen from terminal. Now there is two instances of nautilus. In terminal is printed only line with application id. Lines from background constructor is NOT printed, so even running new instance nautilus is NOT creating new objects for background. -- Application id: org.gnome.Nautilus.Display_0_2 -- * Opened on tird screen. Some thing as in previus point. -- Application id: org.gnome.Nautilus.Display_0_1 -- * Killed all nautilus instances and opened first nautilus from other screen. -- Application id: org.gnome.Nautilus.Display_0_1 Desktop background constructed for screen: 0 Desktop background constructed for screen: 1 Desktop background constructed for screen: 2 -- So what tests are needed to approve patch? It works! There is no problems, no regressions or anything like that. This bug is almost two years old and is not fixed because of stupid reason - 'seems a bit simple to me'. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #705317 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705317 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885989 Title: white screen on second monitor when using two xsessions Status in Nautilus: Confirmed Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “nautilus” source package in Precise: Triaged Bug description: If enable dual head mode (two X screens), the second monitor went white after login with unity or unity-2d. After tracking the gnome- session, it is caused by running "nautilus -n" for this configuration. And if kill the nautilus process, the desktop showed up normally on second screen. lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.10 Release: 11.10 apt-cache policy nautilus nautilus: Installed: 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://cn.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu5 0 500 http://cn.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/885989/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
