Re: Xinerama support

["Matthias Clasen" <Matthias Clasen poet de>]

> >
> >Well, since Xinerama was included in X11R6.4, I would consider it de
facto
> >standard, even if the documentation is a bit lacking...
>
> It is included as a default extension but the api is not standardized
> e.g XFree API is completely different from XSun.

Oh, I wasn't aware of that. But, looking through /usr/openwin on a Solaris
machine
over here, i can find no API whatsoever for getting Xinerama info on the
client side.

> > but even if not, the direct
> >Xinerama interaction is limited to gdkdisplay-x11.c. The rest of the code
is
> >interfacing to the "heads" API of GdkScreen.
>
> This is not be a big problem but we need to be aware of it. As we'll
> need to conditionally include the Xinerama header file and X calls and so
on.

Yes, my patch already does this. And I guess according to my findings above,
my patch would simply treat Solaris machines as not Xinerama enabled.

Matthias