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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Multiple screens on Sun 4...how to use?
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Date: 7 Nov 90 20:25:10 GMT
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>> Discussion of Apple-style multiple screen support.

Don't get them to change X!  I'm making a reasonable living fixing things
for people who want a Cinemascope display under X  (geologists, meterologists,
etc. etc.).

Seriously, folks, the Cinemascope approach and the existing X approach
seem to be so totally at odds with each other that trying to fudge it
with a server extension would stand a good chance of making things worse
for everybody.  The stuff I do lets you choose at server startup time
and that's IT.  I do have a research window server that has all this
stuff built in from the foundations, and its internal structure is quite
different to anything you've seen in either X or NeWS.  This implies
doing Cinemascope as anything other than a hack reuiqres a total rewrite
and subsequent bug infestation.

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