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- From: hstroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Howard Stroyan)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: multiple screens (display), single pointing device....
- Message-ID: <7320045@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 21:10:58 GMT
- References: <CHRISTIA.92Aug29144516@latenite.ssc.gov>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- In comp.windows.x, christia@latenite.ssc.gov (Mike Christiansen) writes:
-
- > Is it possible under R5 to support multiple displays using a single
- > mouse / pointer. That is, like the mac I want to install two (or
- > three) frame buffers and manipulate windows on all three through a
- > single pointer such that the cursor is run into the side of one, it
- > apperars on the next longical display. Is this possible under
- > open-look?
-
- I suspect this is a vendor specific option.
- This type of configuration is available on HP workstations.
- To set it up you list multiply display device files in the
- /usr/lib/X11/X0screens file.
- The screens are be addressable as <hostname>:0.0 , <hostname>:0.1,
- and so forth. Note that in this mode the cursor can be moved
- from screen the screen but windows can't. (Nor can they
- be made to straddle two screens).
-
- --
- Howard Stroyan
- Hewlett-Packard hstroyan@fc.hp.com
- User Interface Technology Division
-