Re: GNOME Summary, June 7-14

["Mark R. Bowyer" <Moredhel earthling net>]

>From: James Henstridge <james@daa.com.au>

>The problem is deciding when to set this.  For instance it could cause a
>few problems if you saved your GNOME session on one machine, then moved to
>another only to find your applications open on the first machine.  For the
>panel it would probably be useful to have a place in the preferences where
>you could force a value for DISPLAY.  This would solve the immediate
>problems with two screen displays.

Well, the DISPLAY values would be :0.0, :0.1 and :0.2 on my system, so if I 
tried going in to the machine next to me instead, and the DISPLAY value for each 
application session managed was used, I'd just not get the apps I'd normally 
have on :0.2, and some errors would get logged somewhere.  I shouldn't ever have 
a name in the DISPLAY variable, so trying to start them on a different host 
shouldn't be an issue.

I'm not sure this is the nicest fix, though.  The display they appear on should 
have it's own preference entry in the same way as the geometry or Virtual 
Desktop used.  It's a hint, not something to force.  So that if I don't *have* a 
:0.2 (and only my machine here does, while most every other is dual-headed - 
they're all UltraSPARC systems) those apps can be started on :0.1 instead, 
rather than just failing.

I honestly think this is something that needs to be given more status than just 
another environment variable.  So that I can also set up different Panels on 
each screen, rather than being forced to have each one the same.

Having said that, Gnome and Enlightenment give far better support for 
multi-headed systems than KDE, say ;O)

Ta,

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