From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 8 01:27:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA17880 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 01:27:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA17813 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 01:27:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00726; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 01:26:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199804080826.BAA00726@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey cc: David Kelly , FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Summary: shopping for new video adapter In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Apr 1998 17:50:08 +0930." <19980408175008.11349@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 01:26:56 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty 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 Nope, thats for others to tackle . Lets say that is for the second generation or third generation X server hackers if they want to . I have done more than a fair contribution in this area. Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message