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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Graphics Standard (Now: Multi-screen X)
Keywords: Graphics
Message-ID: <978@boing.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 91 16:40:35 GMT
References: <895@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <1991May18.061448.26378@ariel.unm.edu> <977@boing.UUCP> <1991May19.184939.18042@grebyn.com>
Reply-To: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Organization: Boing, Milpitas, Ca.
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In article brian@grebyn.com (Brian Bishop) writes:

>In article <977@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>>Not true, X11 already has the concept of multiple screens or frame buffers.

>   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?

I presume you already know how to start up two different X11 servers on
the same machine by using the :<servernum> argument so that they will
each listen on different network ports.

The Amiga switches pointer-keyboard focus when the left mouse button is
clicked. If the mouse is free to move to what ever screen it wants, when
a mouse down occurs, Intuition switches the active server to server(screen)
that the mouse is over.

>  Brian Bishop   Zyga Corp.

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Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
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