Re: Switching X contexts HOWTO ??

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com> writes:
>
> > Hi there!
> >
> >       I'm writing an Image server that has to load images ("GdkPixmaps" etc
> > ....)
> > as X recources (with an XID *) into various X servers And before I go
> > and write a
> > "gtk_xcontext_switch(const char *display);" interface I'm wondering if
> > one already exists
> >
> > ... but it doesn't seem like gtk was developed with that in mind.
> >
> > I've got a few Ideas
> >
> > 1. Spawn a child proccess to do gtk_init() ... add widgets and exit()
> > (the exit will cleanup gtk)
> > 2. Spawn a child for every X server I have to serve (what a pain in the
> > ass :( )
> >
> > Idealy I need to "Uninit" gtk without flaging X resources as "dirty".
> >
> > If anyone has any Ideas or has had / having similar problems please mail
> > me at:
>
> This is simply not possible with GTK+-1.2.x or GTK+-2.0.x.
>
> GTK+-2.2, which should be released within a few months, will
> have multiple display and multiple screen support as it's
> main new feature.
>
> Regards,
>                                         Owen
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Hi!

        Actualy I found a way to do it (only with pixbufs) ... If you look
at "gdk-pixbuf-xlib" module you'll find that with a couple of hours of
work (instead of "static Display *gdk_pixbuf_display" make an array of
struct "instance" containing all static variable's and adding "Display
*disp"
as the first arg to all function prototypes)

        All I have to do is a Cleanup function now (to do the oposite of
gdk_pixbuf_xlib_init(Display *display); )

        Anyhow ... its been about a week since I joined the list and asked this
question
(maybe it didn't get through right away) and at least someone responded

Much apreciation
        -Tristan