Bug 271788

Summary:	kde-open ignores/clears $DISPLAY
Product:	[Plasma] kde-cli-tools	Reporter:	Marc Mezzarobba <marc+bugs>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Aleix Pol <aleixpol>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	jss, marc+bugs, mpyne, rdieter, simonandric5
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.11.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Marc Mezzarobba 2011-04-26 18:04:42 UTC

Version:           2.0 (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
~/tmp$ export DISPLAY=:0.1                                                       
~/tmp$ echo foo > bar
~/tmp$ kde-open bar

Actual Results:  
Editor window opens on display :0.0

Expected Results:  
Editor window opens on display :0.1

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.39-rc4-amd64
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 Michael Pyne 2011-04-27 02:24:07 UTC

Confirmed possible, but the fix is more difficult than just fixing a shell script, since kde-open is implemented as a normal KDE program which uses KRun to open the appropriate application, and IIRC KRun uses a D-Bus call to an already-running klauncher.

If the klauncher that is already running has a different DESKTOP setting (which is highly likely) then the window it creates would go to that X server or screen.

Fixing it would be a not-too-difficult exercise IMO but would require some way of passing the appropriate DESKTOP to start from to klauncher (or just bypassing klauncher if the DESKTOP settings are different, etc.)

Comment 2 A_Hooman_Bean 2018-01-01 08:38:56 UTC

Although reported againtst KDE ages ago, this bug is still easy to hit in normal usage scenarios. I'm on Fedora 27, KDE 17.08.1.

I've got kde running in a vncserver, on displpay :15, I go to my main desktop running Xfce on :0, open dolphin, open a file (picture, video, whatever), it's nowehere to be seen. It's been sent to DISPLAY :15

Brilliant.

Comment 3 Michael Pyne 2018-01-04 22:26:44 UTC

Moving to its current code location.