Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bloom-beacon!SUN.COM!dshr
From: dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Why is resouce manager property only set on Screen 0 ?
Message-ID: <8910031956.AA00240@devnull.sun.com>
Date: 3 Oct 89 19:51:37 GMT
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>     You set the default screen since different physical screens are likely
>     to be in different locations (even if side by side).  The logical
>     screen hack that David Rosenthal implemented for the cgfour was very
>     clever, but as he has argued over and over again, there are much better
>     solutions.
> 
Just to re-inforce this point.  The ONLY reason why the MIT server on Sun's
CG4 displays uses the color and monochrome planes as separate screens rather
than as two visuals of the same screen was that when I tried to implement
the correct (visuals) approach during the beta-testing of X I found a number
of problems in the server code of that time that made doing so too
time-consuming.  And that since that time I (at least) have not had the
time or motivation to go back and do it properly.  But it is clear that
the two-screens approach is a hack that has outlived its usefulness,  and
that I was wrong in assigning a low priority to fixing it.

	David.