Re: Enlightenment and Gnome Panel on XINERAMA

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

You have it a bit backwards.  Without xinerama, an X server can have
multiple screens, each of which have a display with separate root windows.
Xinerama makes two displays look like one big one.

James.

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On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Michael ROGERS wrote:

> 
> >That sounds pretty cool..isn't that what the mac was able to do some time
> >back?  Does it work on networked computers too?  Now that would be
> >something being able to move a window on one computer to another computer
> >seamlessly would be very interesting.  It may not be terribly useful but
> >certainly something intersting to implement.
> > 
> >> > Nice to get working, though. 
> >
> >I agree.
> 
>  Surely this is all a basic part of X? Displays can have more than one screen,
> servers can have more than one display, and if you've got permission you can
> draw windows on any screen of any display of any server on the network. To use
> more than one screen on one machine you just need an X server that supports 
> it, as I think the MacX server did. What does Xinerama do that's new?
> 
> 
> 
>  - Michael Rogers
> 
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