RE: Display option in multiscreen (session management)

["bharat tewari" <bharat tewari wipro com>]

can a single instance of the X server control multiple displays or for each
display there will be an instance of X server running. This is like
X -display :0&
X -display :1&
or a single X can control all displays?
I am not too sure whether i have put this question correctly.
If we need to run multiple instances of X to control displays, then its
better that all applications also have seperate instances too.
regards
bharat

-----Original Message-----
From: desktop-devel-list-admin gnome org
[mailto:desktop-devel-list-admin gnome org]On Behalf Of jacob berkman
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:22 PM
To: JAYARAJ P R
Cc: desktop-devel-list
Subject: Re: Display option in multiscreen (session management)


On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 09:38, JAYARAJ P R wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is in continuation of the discussion at
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-April/msg00139.html
>
> After following the discussion, here is a brief alogorithm of what
> we plan to implement for session-management to work in a multiscreen
> environment.
>
> 1. All GNOME applications need to do the following in their save_session
> routine.
>
> a)get the DISPLAY environment variable using getenv ("DISPLAY")
> b)call gnome_client_set_environment (client, "DISPLAY", DISPLAY)

thinking ahead to the multihead branch (which is why this came up)...
will the apps need to save the display for each window, in addition to
globally?

jacob
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