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From: neideck@kaputt.enet.dec.com (Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm and duplicate windows
Message-ID: <9003151215.AA01883@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 15 Mar 90 12:15:38 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Feasibility:
 
Well, we have an xterm with exactly that capabilities running here. In fact,
it's not limited to xterm, as our approach applies to each and every X
client. We implemented a modified version of libX11.a (libshX11.a) that
gives any client built against it to use several displays simultaneously,
moving input rights ("chalk passing") and add and remove displays throughout
the session.
 
The good news is that we will give this package out in the next 2 to 3 months.
(For those that had been promised release *now*: the author only returned
now...). The bad news is that we didn't yet upgrade the Xlib to R4, haven't
yet written a widely available controller program (it's currently tied to the
DECwindows toolkit) and that the documentation only exists in German. 
 
 
			Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz
			Michael Altenhofen
 
			Digital CEC Karlsruhe, Project NESTOR