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From: karlton@sgi.com (Phil Karlton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: maintaining keyed data in server?
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Date: 20 Oct 90 18:42:31 GMT
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In article <1990Oct18.205241.24811@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, alan@cogswell.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Alan S. Mazer) writes:
|> I seem to recall that there's some way of associating arbitrary data with a
|> key in an X server so that multiple client processes can get the value of
|> some global variable.

Try adding a property (say named _MAZER_DATA) and putting it on the root window of screen 0. Check out the doucmentation of XChangeProperty.

PK