From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 8 01:20:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA15996 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 01:20:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA15984 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 01:20:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA13984; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 17:50:09 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id RAA13521; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 17:50:08 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980408175008.11349@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 17:50:08 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Amancio Hasty Cc: David Kelly , FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter References: <19980408171811.55063@freebie.lemis.com> <199804080807.BAA00594@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199804080807.BAA00594@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 01:07:48AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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