Debian Bug report logs - #587398
chromium-browser: check DISPLAY envvar

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Package: src:chromium; Maintainer for src:chromium is Debian Chromium Team <[email protected]>;

Reported by: Salvo Tomaselli <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:00:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: upstream

Merged with 596357, 735527

Found in versions chromium/6.0.472.53~r57914-3, chromium/31.0.1650.63-1~deb7u1, chromium/5.0.375.86~r49890-3

Forwarded to http://crbug.com/15781

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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:34:34 -0800
From: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>
To: Michael Gilbert <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], Harald Dunkel <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: ignores $DISPLAY on creating new windows
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# difficult
severity 587398 wishlist
reassign 735527 chromium-browser 31.0.1650.63-1~deb7u1
forcemerge 587398 735527
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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



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