Martin.Wunderli_at_jungle.ch writes:
> I intend to use two monitors and two graphic adapters with a SUN Sparcstation 5
> (TurboGXPlus graphics adapter). The first tests I did with CDE wm (shudder...),
> revealed that I cannot move a window from one monitor to another and that a
> window cannot reside partly on monitor one and partly on monitor two.
That's correct. The default X11R6 (R5/OpenWindows) X servers do not
support this feature. I have 3 monitors on my SS5 which means fvwm
will launch 3 window managers.
> I wonder whether this is a problem of TurboGXPlus, X or CDE wm. Since I do not
> believe in CDE wm at all :-) and since I am quite a fan of fvwm, I still hope
> that at least moving a window from one monitor to another is possible with
> fvwm. Maybe even having a window spread over two monitors (having a window on
> partly on a page seems to be similar).
It's not really a window manager issue. There is a modified X11R6
server called XVan that merges all the frame buffers into one virtual
display. XVan+fvwm does allow you to move windows between monitors.
I tried XVan for a while but found it confusing having one huge
virtual screen with a virtual desktop on top of it.
BTW, I think there's another program called xmove that can move
applications between displays.
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Received on Sun Jul 21 1996 - 15:39:19 BST