gnome-terminal does not honor display setting when using xephyr-xserver

[Heikki Toivonen]

Seen in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.

I have various scripts that start a nested Xserver using xephyr-xserver, and launch gnome-terminals in the nested server. These worked fine in Dapper Drake, but it seems with Gutsy Gibbon only the first gnome-terminal honors the display setting.

Here is a simple test script:

#!/bin/sh
Xephyr :1 -ac -br -screen 1024x768x16/BPP&
DISPLAY=:1 gnome-terminal&
DISPLAY=:1 gnome-terminal --geometry=-0-0&

In the terminal where I run this script I see:

Extended Input Devices not yet supported. Impelement it at line 625 in ../../../../hw/kdrive/src/kinput.c
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list!

I can make this work by using xterms, like so (replace the last two lines in the script above):

xterm -display :1&
xterm -display :1 -geometry -0-0&

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Alexander (aldegoeij)]

I'm getting the Extended Input Devices error trying out UME under Hardy

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

needs to be confirmed by someone else i cannot reproduce this.

[Peter Cordes (peter-cordes)]

I tried to reproduce this, but it works for me on a pre-Intrepid system. I'm going to mark this fix-released, rather than invalid, on the assumption that there was something going on. If anyone can reproduce this, or knows exactly what the submitter meant by
"only the first gnome-terminal honors the display setting"
 they should re-open this bug.

 It sounds like Heikki is saying that one of the gnome-terminals opens outside Xephyr, even though DISPLAY=:1. That sounds very unlikely, unless gnome-terminal talks to an already-running gnome-terminal that it found with something other than X, and asked it to open a new window.

 I tested on a dual-core system with hot caches, and gnome-terminal running outside Xephyr, so there was plenty of chance for any race conditions to happen. Both gnome-terminals appear at opposite corners of the Xephyr window. The combined stdout/stderr of it all is:
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list!
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
Failed to retrieve terminal server from activation server