Re: screen/display switching

[Rob Adams <robadams ucla edu>]

Just out of curiosity, why do people still use non-xinerama multi-head?

-Rob

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 02:31, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:18:41PM -0500, James Willcox wrote:
> > > In gtk+ 2.2, multi-head support was added, giving developers the ability
> > > to move windows to different screens or displays on-the-fly.  I think it
> > > would be great if we could push this ability up to users.  For me, the
> > > most common use for this would be to move windows between screens since
> > > I use a multi-head setup w/o xinerama.  Currently, there is no way to do
> > > this (unless the app has something specifically built-in to allow it).
> 
> FWIW, we've been experimenting with something along these lines within
> the GPE project.  I've attached a description of the current protocol we
> use.  There is some example code in our CVS tree if you want to play
> with it; see links from gpe.handhelds.org for details on accessing that
> stuff.  gpe/base/teleport is the client program that initiates display
> changes, and gpe/base/libdm is the library that applications link with
> when they want to be migration-aware.
> 
> p.
>