Re: Connecting to two displays ?

[Rob Huffstedtler <robhome bagpipe com>]

This sounds very similar to something HP has called SharedX.
Unfortunately, it is not (presently) Open Source.  Perhaps someone with
contacts at HP could make the appropriate suggestion?

On 23 May 2000, Noel
Burton-Krahn wrote:

> 
> Interesting idea.  Gtk talks to an X server over a socket.  The X
> server talks back, so connecting to two servers doesn't make much
> sense.  However, you could write a simple redirecting X server which
> forwards traffic between an X app and your primary display and copies
> traffic to a secondary display.  Ssh does X forwarding.
> 
> 
> X App ---------> Forking X server --------> primary display
>       <---------            |      <------ 
>                             |
>                             +-------------> secondary display
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> --Noel
> 
> 
> > Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 16:18:47 +0200
> > From: JPR <roumian@clr34ei.der.edf.fr>
> > 
> > Hello,
> > is it possible to have a gtk app managing windows on two different
> > display ?
> > a gdk_display variable seems to be a global one in the library, so I'not
> > optimistic about it.
> > 
> > I'd like to get a snapshot of one display, and display it on an other
> > one.
> > 
> > --
> > Jean-Paul ROUMIAN
> > 
> > 
> > 
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