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From: klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Multiple Displays in Xt
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Date: 6 Nov 90 11:54:58 GMT
References: <9011050309.AA08155@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
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In article <9011050309.AA08155@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>,
mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU writes:
|> > I can't seem to open multiple displays in my X Toolkit application.
|> [...]
|> > I'm running X11R3 under Ultrix 3.1 on a DECstation 3100.
|> 
|> I am fairly sure R3 Xt simply does not work right when you try to open
|> multiple displays.  (Some of the Xt-private state information is not
|> correctly tagged according to which display it belongs to, so Xt tries
|> to use some things on displays they didn't come from.  From your quoted
|> error message, it seems it does this with a Cursor in your case.)
|> 
|> I have a vague memory of hearing that R4 was supposed to be better, but
|> I also seem to recall hearing that the R4 Xt still doesn't work right.

I am opening multiple displays with the R4 version of the X Toolkit all the
time - and it works.

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