On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 01:29:03PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > Pavel Sanda wrote: >> Edwin Leuven wrote: >>> Jean-Marc wrote: >>>> But simultaneous editing by several users is an old dream of ours :) >>> others are living our dreams: >>> >>> http://www.abisource.com/release-notes/2.8.0.phtml >> >> and as from last discussion ensued it will remain our dream, unless qt >> support possibility to have one application with more X displays. > > Is there some problem having several displays for a qt app?
That depends on whether you consider "it does not work" a problem. > The X protocol has no problem with it, of course. To use a particular > display, you communicate with the correct host. Qt encapsulates this > in a nice object oriented interface. > My suggestion is that you find out what qt object it is that store the > ip address and so on for the X server connection. Normal single-display > apps only have one such object. Try instantiating several such objects, > possibly connecting to different servers. Ideally, it should work. :-) The X11 data is handled as a singleton, see 'extern QX11Data *qt_x11Data' in src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h Andre'