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- From: roeber@vxcrna.cern.ch
- Subject: Re: Multi-screen X server
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.184728.1@vxcrna.cern.ch>
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- Organization: CERN -- European Organization for Nuclear Research
- References: <XServers-NonUNIX.txt_717942244@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov> <1992Nov12.151615.19008@osf.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:47:28 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1992Nov12.151615.19008@osf.org>, daniel@moonshine.osf.org (Daniel Dardailler) writes:
- > I'm looking for references of multi screen X servers,
- > any hardware, but preferably sun, hp, or 486.
- > I'm particularly interested by those that you can run on a
- > single physical tube (this way I won't have to buy another monitor)
-
- I'm in the middle of writing such a beast. I'm basing it on the
- sample MIT server. The sample server doesn't have anything special
- for this, but the device-specific part can pretend it has multiple
- screens.
-
- > I used to have one where you could say at startup time: "X -2" (for 2 screens)
- > and then open connections to either unix:0.0 or unix:0.1
-
- Yes, the device-specific part gets a shot at the command line arguments,
- which it can use as it pleases when setting itself up.
-
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