[Bug 256934] [NEW] dual-head, dual-x-server setup hinders opening URL from within thunderbird

[torgeh]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Hi,
I'm running a somewhat special setup with dual head using 2 instances of the xserver (xorg.conf attached).
When running firefox on one "head", say :0.0 and another application that is typically able to pass a URL to firefox on the other "head", say thunderbird on :0.1, I get the follwing error message whenever I try to open a URL from withing thunderbird:
<cite head="Close Firefox">
Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.
</cite>
I tried to add the following to my
~/.mozilla/firefox/rc :
<cite head="~/.mozilla/firefox/rc">
DISPLAY=:0.0
</cite>
but this doesn't change anything, it seems this information is parsed only after the communication with the running firefox instance has failed.
However, when I patch my
/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/firefox.sh
with:
<cite head="patch">
37,40d36
< if [ -f $MOZDIR/firefox/rc ] ; then
<   . $MOZDIR/firefox/rc
< fi
< 
</cite>
everything works as expected.
Only thing: I have to re-patch it after every update.

Can you please look into this.
Thanks a lot
Torge
P.S.: IIRC a similar issue exists the other way around when using mailto: URLs

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 11 14:37:23 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2 [modified: usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/firefox.sh]
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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dual-head, dual-x-server setup hinders opening URL from within thunderbird
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