Re: FVWM: Drag windows across physical monitors

From: Olly Stephens <olly_at_dylan.zycad.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 15:17:05 -0800

In your message to fvwm_at_hpc.uh.edu you wrote:
|>
|> We have several people here who would like to use two (or more) physical
|> monitors as the same display. In other words, monitor one would be
|> pixels 0,0-1023,767 of DISPLAY 0.0 and monitor two would be pixels
|> 1024,0-2048,767 of the _same_ display. Windows could be partially
|> visible across each monitor and dragged or resized across them.
|>
|> Does anyone know how to do this (short of buying a Macintosh)?
|>

If you're talking about Sun's, you may be lucky.

I've never investigated it, but there's a modified X11R6 server available
in the R6 contrib tree called Xvan. Here's the top of the README:

        README file for Xvan 1.2 (X11/R6 multiple screen server)
        Peter C. Jones, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Chelmsford, MA
        last updated June 1995

  This is the README file for the X11/R6 version of the Xvan server.
  This latest release features a couple of bug fixes and the necessary
  updates to remain consistent with patch level 11 of the X11/R6
  distribution.

  Xvan is a modification of the X11/R6 sample server that allows
  multiple physical screens to comprise one logical screen. It is
  currently only fully implemented for Sun workstations, so there is
  only one machine-specific subdirectory, "sun", in the "hw" branch of
  the source tree. However, for any other machine that could use the
  code in the standard "mfb" and "cfb*" directories, it should be rather
  simple to port Xvan functionality.

If my reading of this is correct, fvwm (or any window manager) running on top
of this will think that there's only one screen and will do just what you want.

Olly

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Received on Thu Feb 08 1996 - 17:21:24 GMT

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