Comment # 2
on bug 1183133
from Hans-Peter Jansen
Dear Eric,
(In reply to Eric Benton from comment #1)
> Using:
> KDE 5.98.0 Plasma 5.25.5
> Qt: 5.15.6
>
> and gkrellm version 2.3.11
>
> When i have two instances running, one on each monitor, they work fine. But
> on startup the two instances go to the same spot (one on top of the other)
> on a single monitor and do not remember their previous positions. I can drag
> the top instance to the other monitor and then they are fine until the next
> boot when the same thing happens again.
> I have:
> "Remember screen location at exit and move to it at next startup" =>
> checked
> "Allow multiple instances" => checked
>
> both of these are checked in each instance.
> Both monitors are the same make and model and each has a resolution of
> 1920x1080 and setup side by side
> The mouse can move from one screen to the other and i can drag anything
> across monitors
>
> I looked at some of gkrellm's config files and this one:
>
> ${HOME}/.gkrellm2/data/startup_position
>
> has just 0 0 on one line
> shouldn't it also have a 2nd line with the startup location for the second
> instance?
> something like (assuming its x and y in that order)
> 0 0
> 1980 0
> What am I missing? Seems like a bug to me.
Ahem, I guess, your usage pattern is unusual a bit. Being a long term gkrellm
user,
that brought maintainer ship of this goodie to me, I can say, that I never
heard from a usage case of two instances *for* the same system.
Running multiple instances on a single system for multiple hosts is working
just fine (which is the most common usage pattern, that I know of), because you
would execute the gkrellms for other hosts with gkrellm -s hostname, resulting
in the necessary separation in ~/.gkrellm2 (_S-hostname is appended to the
files/dirs.
So, you might want to try to run one gkrellm as usual, and the other with -s
localhost. Probably, this will solve your problem.
Monitoring other hosts would require the execution of the gkrellmd service and
probably to open port 19150/tcp.