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From: errolc@videovax.tv.tek.com (Errol Crary)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Display sharing
Message-ID: <6067@videovax.tv.tek.com>
Date: 2 Oct 90 15:08:38 GMT
References: <9010011634.AA26923@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: errolc@videovax.tv.tek.com (Errol Crary)
Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR
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In article <9010011634.AA26923@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> rabbit@houvmscc.iinus1.ibm.COM writes:
>I am working as part of the design effort for the Mission Control
>Center for Space Station Freedom.  We have a requirement for the
>capability to share displays between consoles that are going to be a
>variety of workstations of an unknown flavor running Xwindows.
>
It is difficult to understand the requirements you have.  In X, the words
are well defined; a display consists of a instance of the server, one or
more screens, and a (primary) keyboard and pointer.  Since a server can
accept connections from remote clients, the client can place graphical
data on, and get user input from the display. Likewise, a single client 
can access multiple displays. This means that one application can have 
its output appear on multiple displays,  and get input from multiple
users.