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From: brian@grebyn.com (Brian Bishop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Graphics Standard (Now: Multi-screen X)
Keywords: Graphics
Message-ID: <1991May19.184939.18042@grebyn.com>
Date: 19 May 91 18:49:39 GMT
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In article <977@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>
>Not true, X11 already has the concepts of multiple screens or frame
>buffers.
>
>If the server itself does not support multiple screens you can run more
>than one server, each controlling a different screen/framebuffer. (Up to
>a maximum of 10).
>With the multiple server approach you can even have different GUI's in
>each screen. Motif, TWM, OpenLook, etc. can all be running concurrently
>on one box.

>Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.


   This is something I was trying to do recently. I figured that the solution
was either configure the server to deal with two displays, or run two servers.
But the main problem is: how do you get two servers to share the same keyboard
and mouse? Under the implementation I have been running, one server eventually
gets confused and shuts down... Is is different under Amiga X or Amiga/UX X?


  Brian Bishop   Zyga Corp.

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          Brian Bishop, Software Engineer, Zyga Corporation

  (brian@grebyn.com)   "This one is for the eyes of the other dogs to come."