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From: keith@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Keith Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: multiple screens and window managers
Message-ID: <100920134@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 1 Dec 89 20:18:56 GMT
References: <2246@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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>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.

There is a workaround for this, if I understand your comment correctly.

You can run a copy of mwm at each screen and give each a different
resource name (using the -name command line option). Each copy of mwm 
can then pick up a personalized set of resources.

For example:

    % mwm -name mwm0 -display hpxyz:0.0      # mwm on screen zero
    % mwm -name mwm1 -display hpxyz:0.1      # mwm on screen one

  Your resources might look something like this:

    Mwm*keyboardFocusPolicy:   explicit      # class name applies to both

    mwm0*background:           maroon

    mwm1*background:           white

    etc.


Keith M. Taylor
Hewlett-Packard
Corvallis, Oregon