firefox on two displays

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 06:15 +0200, Johan Ramm-Ericson wrote:
> Since firefox creates a lock file that is attached to the display ("ls
> -l ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/lock") I'm guessing that because you
> have two displays firefox will not allow you to start up another session
> on a different display than the original one.
> 
> Does that clear things up?

Nope. Why do you say that the lock file is attached to the display?

Listing my lock file shows it is a link to "127.0.0.1:+30217". 127.0.0.1
is obviously localhost, the other number is the process ID of the
running firefox. Unless the colon or the plus somehow represent the
display (unlikely, as the display at the time I did that ls was :0.1), I
don't see any reference to displays in there.

Removing the lock file from under the running firefox does NOT permit a
new firefox window to open on a different display - the same message
still appears.

Regards, K.

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