Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: multihead support in evolution

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Ettore,

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 23:42, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 05:22, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > 	CORBA_exception_init (&ev);
> > 	CORBA_Context_set_one_value (
> > 		context, "display",
> > 		DisplayString (gdk_display),
> > 		&ev);
> > 	CORBA_exception_free (&ev);
> 
> Note that DisplayString() is not guarranteed to be unique on the same
> display so this hack isn't completely reliable.

	It's pretty good; and ultimately people tend to do their DNS lookups on
the same machine that they're launching the components on, with the
DISPLAY inherited from b-a-s anyway so ...

>       * The shell and the mail component don't expect to be run multiple
>         times on the same set of files -- so two Evolution instances
>         running at the same time on different displays can easily cause
>         trouble and cause ugly misbehaviors.

	Hmm - that's more problematic,

	Regards,

		Michael.

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