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From: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: multiple screens and window managers
Keywords: what works, and what doesn't
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Date: 22 Nov 89 00:54:58 GMT
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Reply-To: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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Since I last posted news about window managers and multiple screens I have
acquired and tested two more window managers.  We got gwm version 1.4.1.30
and Sun's olwm.  Olwm, while very nice, doesn't recognize the second screen.
Gwm's default mode does support multiple screens, however, when we tried
to use the Motif-look mode, it suffers from trying to use screen one pixmaps
on screen zero.  This may be a problem in our configuration file.

To summarize:
    wm,  gwm, and twm (R4) support multiple screens;

    awm, uwm, olwm, twm (R3) do not support multiple screens.

    we are waiting for our Motif tape to come so we can try mwm.

Our project has a requirement to support multiple screens, and we are trying
to find some alternatives to evaluate for our window manager needs.  If 
anyone has any suggestions, please mail them to me, or post them if you think 
it's relevent.

Thanks.

Benson, you are so mercifully devoid of the ravages of intelligence.
                                      Evil to Benson in Time Bandits
kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov             (818)354-8771
Kaleb Keithley