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From: keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: why so many xdms
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Date: 15 Feb 90 18:52:47 GMT
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> We are running the X11R3 ... using 2 NCD16s ... there are always four xdms
> running in the background.

The R3 version of xdm created 2 processes per display for various arcane
reasons.  The R4 version was fixed to only use 1 process per display.  The R4
version also manages the remote displays much better, detecting when they're
turned off by "pinging" occasionally and doing a host of other useful
tasks.

Keith Packard
MIT X Consorium