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From: stroyan@hpfcso.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: X server and the X0screens file
Message-ID: <7370105@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 90 18:28:26 GMT
References: <9914@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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> PLEASE make sure that the new R4 server can have the information that is
> contained in /usr/lib/X11/Xnscreens be set by a command line option.
> It really makes life difficult to have those filenames hardwired.

> Sometimes I want to put X in the overlay planes and sometimes I want it
> to be in the graphics planes.  The only way to accomplish this is to
> change the contents of those files.

Actually, you can choose among different configurations by using different
server numbers.  Just put the overlay version in X0screens, the image
plane version in X1screens and the combined mode version in X2screens.
Since you can have different color limits and numbers of screens per
server, you may also wish to use different .x11start files.  I use
scripts such as
x0:
  cd ~; xinit .x11startx0 :0
x1:
  cd ~; xinit .x11startx1 :1

to make it easy to start up whichever server configuration I want.

Mike Stroyan, stroyan@hpfcla.hp.com