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From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Support of multiple displays
Keywords: X11R3, DISPLAYS, MULTIPLE
Message-ID: <3156@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 89 20:34:40 GMT
References: <4773@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <4948@ingr.com>
Reply-To: aad@stepstone.com
Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT
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In article <4948@ingr.com= doyle@ingr.com (Doyle Davidson) writes:
=In article <4773@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV=, basil@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV (Basil Hashem) writes:

== 2) Is only one window manager needed for the control of both displays?  If
== so, then is it possible for a window to be dragged across the displays, or
== a window to straddle the displays? Why or why not?

=Oh, as best as I can tell, none of the existing popular window managers
=handle multiple displays (twm, uwm, hpwm).  hint...hint... 8-)
=Ya gotta run two or more each with:  -display xxx:0.?

I remember seeing a Sun 2/120 at CMU running Andrew with a color screen
in addition to a normal mono one.  You could move windows between them, and I
*think* you could straddle.  However, I don't think there was any support for
color, so everything was b/w.



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