Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 17:50:08 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter Message-ID: <19980408175008.11349@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199804080807.BAA00594@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 01:07:48AM -0700 References: <19980408171811.55063@freebie.lemis.com> <199804080807.BAA00594@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Wed, 8 April 1998 at 1:07:48 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: >> 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. > > 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. Go for it! I'll certainly be eternally grateful (well, a few weeks, anyway :-) Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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