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Starting two times firefox on different monitors

i'm using openthinclient and try to create a script that starts iceweasel in fullscreen on a machine two times on different monitors (each instance on a different monitor).

Is that even possible?

At the moment I only run

iceweasel -new-window http://stackoverflow.com -new-window http://www.google.com

So two instance are running. How can I move the windows to other monitors?

Solution

  • If I remember well on Fedora you can choose the display before starting a windowed app by setting the var DISPLAY:

    xhost +localhost
DISPLAY=:0.0
gui-app

    The first number of DISPLAY=:X.0 is the number of the display.

    Try with your OS (Debian?)

    The list of commands that works for me on Centos 7:

    xhost +localhost
DISPLAY=:0
firefox     => openned on the first monitor
DISPLAY=:1
firefox     => openned on the second monitor