Re: Multihead in GTK 2.2

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

"Jeremy Wilkins" <jeb jeremywilkins freeserve co uk> writes:

> This is probably a dum question, but I haven't been able to find any info on
> it.
> 
> How do I tell gtk what the second display is for multihead support, should
> there be another env variable (eg $DISPLAY)? Will this work if the displays
> are separate X servers?

Multihead support generally needs application cooperation - GTK+
doesn't magically know what server to put what windows on.

 gtk_display_open()
 gdk_display_get_screen()/gdk_display_get_default_screen()
 gtk_window_set_screen()

Are the basics of the API need for multihead programming.

Regards,
                                        Owen