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  1. > Building viewers so that they can also operate on some pre-existing
  2. > window, instead of just creating their own, is an excellent idea.  I'm
  3. > always surprised when otherwise-wonderful viewers, such as Ghostscript
  4. > or xv, don't do this  from the start.  Probably just doesn't occur to
  5. > their authors.  Also, it seems tricky to do with most (all that I know
  6. > of) Xt-based toolkits.
  7. Ghostscript 2.5.2 does this.
  8.     GHOSTVIEW="__window_id__"
  9.     DISPLAY="whatever"
  10.     export GHOSTVIEW DISPLAY
  11.  
  12. Ghostview 1.4.1 uses this feature.
  13. Now we just have to fix xloadimage, mpeg_play, (and you said you had a
  14. fixed xv).
  15.  
  16. --sanders@bsdi.com
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