Subject: Re: ignores $DISPLAY on creating new windows

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:34:34 -0800

# difficult
severity 587398 wishlist
reassign 735527 chromium-browser 31.0.1650.63-1~deb7u1
forcemerge 587398 735527
quit

Hi,

Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote:

>> If I run
>>
>>         env DISPLAY=:4 chromium
>>
>> then I get another window in my background VNC session
>> (DISPLAY=:42) instead. There is no error message
[...]
> This is more of an upstream issue.  Would you mind reporting it there?

No need --- the problem's well known.  See
http://bugs.debian.org/587398 for details.

Thanks,
Jonathan