2 screens -> nautilus shown on the wrong screen when opened via the panel

Thank you for your bug report. There is no need to open upstream bugs on launchpad if they are already reported on bugzilla.gnome.org though

This affects me also.

Opening nautilus from the panel or menu results in nautilus opening on the main display. Opening nautilus from the terminal or from an icon on the desktop opens nautilus on the correct display.

Also, something else strange. I think its at least related...

If I get a nautilus window open on my second monitor (either by terminal or an icon on the desktop), running mplayer (by doublecliking a video file in nautilus) opens it up on the first screen. If, however, I run mplayer from the panel, it opens in the correct screen. Same for images (EoG), music (mplayer again), pdfs (document viewer)... so far, everything apart from open office formats. These open on the correct screen regardless of how they're opened.

So something's up with the how (gnome-panel/menu.c) menuitem_to_screen (or one of it's called functions) works, or how the menu items are generated, perhaps with the traceability of the menu item to its panel and therefore screen. See (panel-menu-items.c) panel_menu_item_activate_desktop_file:

panel_launch_desktop_file (path, NULL, menuitem_to_screen (menuitem), &error);

as compared to a working function like:

panel_launch_desktop_file ("alacarte.desktop", "alacarte", screen, &error);

where screen is set using gtk_widget_get_screen(GTK_WIDGET (button));

I don't think it's anything to do with having multiple menu bars as removing the first screen's menu bar does not affect the issue.
I'm afraid I can't really go any further than this as it involves a bit too much work for me as a simple user, but I'm guessing this would require only a simple fix.

the bugh has been fixed upstream now

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu6

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nautilus (1:2.26.0-0ubuntu6) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/90_svn_update.patch:
    - update code to current svn to fix some issues, give some testing to the
      changes and make the 2.26.1 update easier
    - don't regenerate thumbnails every time on some zoom level (lp: #204434)
    - query crasher fix (lp: #341988)
    - don't freeze on some compact view geometries (lp: #350909)
    - dnd in list view should work better (lp: #185387)
    - correctly handle special chars in launchers (lp: #233913, #252902)
    - open dialogs on the correct screen (lp: #282806)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:53:08 +0200