RE: Multi-head session management

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 00:15, bharat tewari wrote:
> 
> > i propose a '--screen' argument, parsed by the x11 gtk backend (or
> > libgnomeui, if we have to).  this argument will override the screen
> > portion of the display name in --display or $DISPLAY.  if XOpenDisplay()
> > fails with this screen, then the default --display or $DISPLAY is used.
> 
> In both cases, there will be added code in gdk x11 backened code wherein we
> need to check the XOpenDisplay() with both parameters.

...which probably will only be able to go into gtk 2.2 (though i can't
speak for the maintainers).

are you guys going to work on an implementation, or would you like me to
look at it?

jacob
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