Re: Connecting to two displays ?

2000-05-23 Thread JPR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The idea of a 'forking X server' is interesting, but fraught with danger. > For instance, what should it do if the X app hands it a call to XAllocColor(), > and there's room in the colormap on one display, but the other one is > full? Or an X font available on one disp

Re: Connecting to two displays ?

2000-05-23 Thread Rob Huffstedtler
This sounds very similar to something HP has called SharedX. Unfortunately, it is not (presently) Open Source. Perhaps someone with contacts at HP could make the appropriate suggestion? On 23 May 2000, Noel Burton-Krahn wrote: > > Interesting idea. Gtk talks to an X server over a socket. The

Re: Connecting to two displays ?

2000-05-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 23 May 2000 06:15:37 -, Noel Burton-Krahn said: > Interesting idea. Gtk talks to an X server over a socket. The X > server talks back, so connecting to two servers doesn't make much > sense. However, you could write a simple redirecting X server which > forwards traffic between an X

Re: Connecting to two displays ?

2000-05-22 Thread Noel Burton-Krahn
Interesting idea. Gtk talks to an X server over a socket. The X server talks back, so connecting to two servers doesn't make much sense. However, you could write a simple redirecting X server which forwards traffic between an X app and your primary display and copies traffic to a secondary dis

Connecting to two displays ?

2000-05-22 Thread JPR
Hello, is it possible to have a gtk app managing windows on two different display ? a gdk_display variable seems to be a global one in the library, so I'not optimistic about it. I'd like to get a snapshot of one display, and display it on an other one. -- Jean-Paul ROUMIAN __