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From: toml@ninja.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Double headed X server?
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.203910.9877@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 6 Oct 90 20:39:10 GMT
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|> Has anyone ever heard of a double-headed X manager?  We have a Vitec-10
|> board hooked up to our sun, and would like to run X on both.  The problem,
|> if it is not obvious, is that the X manager (we use twm) runs solely on the
|> sun, not on the board.  So an X environment can be created on the board OR
|> the Sun, but not both.  Vitec said someone somewhere is doing both, but
|> were unable to give anymore advise than "you need a double headed window
|> manager".  Help (please).

If X is running double headed, i.e., when you start X, you see the root
pattern appear on both screens, then the R4 version of twm will manage
both screens.

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Tom LaStrange

Solbourne Computer Inc.    ARPA: toml@Solbourne.COM
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