Re: Multiple GdkScreens?



On 7/30/07, Pascal Schoenhardt <stoanhart gmail com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am working on the Gnome SOC project for RandR 1.2 in Gnome.
>
> I just have a quick question about GdkScreens. In what scenario is
> there ever more than one GdkScreen? If I understand things correctly,
> a GdkScreen is the same as a screen in X: one large virtual "canvas"
> which can consist of multiple monitors. As far as I know, the number
> of screens in X is hard coded to 1, and always will be (hence
> xinerama, and now RandR 1.2).
>
> Are there other platforms on which Gdk may have more than one screen?
> Or if multiple X servers are running, with multiple copies of Gnome,
> do they still share the same gdk?

X is that platform. Try Xnest -scrns 4



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