Previously from "Paul D. Smith"
>%% Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_fvwm.org> writes:
>
> >> What I would like to do is be able to push a window from 1 screen onto
> >> another and have it partially displayed on both screens if I choose. Is
> >> this possible?
>
> dv> No. X doesn't allow windows windows to switch between different
> dv> screens. Even if it did, the application itself had to know
> dv> about the screen switch. Sorry.
>
>Well, that's not strictly true depending on what you mean by "screen".
>If you mean multiple physical screens, X _can_ do this, but in order for
>it to work you have to be running one X server that treats all the
>screens as one large bit of real-estate. The applications all think
>it's a normal screen (just a really wide--or tall--one :) and the X
>server determines what pixels get drawn on each screen given the
>geometry. I've seen this done before, where you can move the mouse,
>windows, etc. between screens.
>
>At any rate, this obviously isn't within the purview of the window
>manager (or any other application).
Right. Macs have always been able to do this, and the Xinerama
extension in XFree86 4.0 (upcoming) is going to do it too. Pretty
neat. Doesn't allow some of the funny stuff the Mac did, like
different visuals on each screen! So weird to move items between an
8-bit dpy and a 1-bit... Freaky. Oh look, we've wandered way off
topic.
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Received on Wed Jan 12 2000 - 12:44:14 GMT