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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  X on a SUN cgfour
Message-ID: <9008282158.AA18005@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 28 Aug 90 21:58:44 GMT
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> We have a SUN system with the cgfour frame buffer.  This frame buffer
> gets configured as two screens :0.0 is the color FB and :0.1 is a
> mono frame buffer.

> If X is fired up on login, then I can get from one screen to the
> other by sliding off the current screen to the left or the right.

> However, if X is fired up to run over (under?) suntools (SUNOS 3.4),
> then I cannot get the the other screen using the mouse.  What I have
> been doing is firing up an application for the "other" screen.  TWM,
> appears to transfer mouse control to the screen as part of the client
> positioning process.

> Is there someway I can run both suntools *and* X in such a was as to
> have easy mouse access to both X screens?  (I do *not* want to have
> to run two copies of suntools in order to do this.)

I assume you're running R4.  (R3 had :0.0 as mono and :0.1 as color.)

When running under suntools, the auto-zaphod feature is disabled
because of the way X gets mouse events.  You have to get to the other
screen by way of an XWarpPointer call[%].  I have two programs that can
do this for you; neither of them is quite as handy as sliding off the
sides of the screen, but one of them isn't a bad substitute: it puts up
little doodads to click on to change screen.  (Ftp to 132.206.1.1 and
fetch X/xscreenwarp.c, or write to me if you can't ftp.)

[%] There may be other ways; I suspect grabbing the mouse with a
    confine-to window on the desired screen may work, but haven't
    checked.

					der Mouse

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