Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!news!garyo From: garyo@prometheus.think.com (Gary Oberbrunner) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: multiple screens and window managers Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 89 20:50:20 GMT References: <4410@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> <2246@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <361@mirsa.inria.fr> <362@mirsa.inria.fr> Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge Mass., USA Lines: 40 In-reply-to: colas@modja.inria.fr's message of 23 Nov 89 08:55:05 GMT In article <362@mirsa.inria.fr> colas@modja.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo) writes: In article <4410@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>, mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer) writes: > Actually, MWM does support multiple screens, but you need to run one MWM > process per screen. Well, if you call THAT "supporting multiple screens", which WM isn't ? :-) (then the GWM motif profile supports multiple screens too...) Except of course for the insidious xrdb/OpenDisplay bug (still in R4, I believe?) that ALL screens' WM properties are stored on screen 0, so you can't have a set of window manager properties per screen. Thus WMs like mwm can't really be convinced to use the right pixmaps on both the color and b/w screen, for example, because those defs are stored in the WM properties. The "official" reason for not fixing this is that what you really want is a set of defaults *per visual*, and doing it per-screen would only fix it for the thousands of us with multiple-virtual-screen Suns (plus a few other strange servers). And the per-visual solution is non-trivial, involving changes to xrdb and its data file format, as well as XOpenDisplay. Oh well. - Gary Oberbrunner Thinking Machines Corporation 245 First St Cambridge, MA 02142 garyo@think.com -- As always, Gary O ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember, Truth is not beauty; Gary Oberbrunner Information is not knowledge; Beauty is not love; {ames,harvard}!think!garyo Knowledge is not wisdom; Love is not music; garyo@think.com Wisdom is not truth; Music is the best. - FZ (617) 876-1111 x265