Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 01:07:48 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter Message-ID: <199804080807.BAA00594@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Apr 1998 17:18:11 %2B0930." <19980408171811.55063@freebie.lemis.com>
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Oh, I used to hack on X servers and I think we should be able to do it at the very least we should be able to spread a display across multiple monitors with the same resolution and color depth. The more I think about it the easier it gets ... which makes me wonder why we don't have such functionality. Cheers, Amancio > On Wed, 8 April 1998 at 0:41:03 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > >> XiG can't (couldn't) do that. > > > > I don't see any reason why his X server can't split a window between > > two monitors then again I don't know Xig Xserver internals 8) > > (Xig is a commercial product and does not make the sources available). > > It doesn't fit in the X hierarchy. A real X display is managed by the > server in specific ways, and a window always belongs to a specific > display. This also means that you can't move a window from one > display to another. > > Having said that, I believe there are servers that spread a single > display across multiple monitors. This isn't really the "X way". > I've never used one. > > Greg > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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