XFree86 4.0, Enlightenment 16.4, and Xinerama...

[Sean]

I thought multiheaded support was all about sharing an x session between
two monitors. *ponders*  I havnt paid much attention to this since I
only have one monitor, and I assumed since the Macs have been able
share the display acrossed multiple monitors for at least 5 years, that 
is what it was all about. 

Its good to know.



On 20 Apr 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:
> 
> > Heheh, one step ahead of ya there, just got done doing
> > that... ;) Now the cursor works fine, just can't seem to move
> > windows between heads.
> 
> Is that because they're separate X `screens'?  i.e., one of them
> might be :0.0 and the other one :0.1.  I don't know if there's
> any way to deal with that other than running something like x2x.
> 
> You *are* familiar with x2x, right?  If not here's some info:
> 
> blp:~(0)$ apt-cache show x2x
> Package: x2x
> Version: 1.27-5
> Priority: optional
> Section: x11
> Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>
> Depends: libc6, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5)
> Architecture: i386
> Filename: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/x11/x2x_1.27-5.deb
> Size: 17252
> MD5sum: 886ebdc533c991c2c5a9ba82f5fd1754
> Description: Link two X displays together, simulating a multiheaded display
>  x2x joins a pair of X displays together, as if they were a single
>  multiheaded display.  The pointer can be warped between displays,
>  or, depending on how you start x2x, can slide from one display to the
>  other when it runs off the edge of the screen.  Keyboard focus also
>  moves between displays in the way you'd expect, and the X selection
>  propagates around.  At least one of the displays involved (specifically,
>  the one being controlled remotely) must support the XTEST extension.
>  (The servers shipped by Debian support this.)
>  .
>  x2x is useful when you have two displays on the same desk, as you can use
>  a single keyboard and mouse to control both.  If you want to propagate
>  your selections between displays which are not sharing a desk, you might
>  be more interested in the package propsel.  Propsel does not link the
>  displays' keyboard and mouse, which would be confusing in some cases,
>  and can propagate between up to 8 displays, whereas x2x can handle only
>  two at a time.
> installed-size: 39
> 
> > All in all, this multiheaded X stuff is really cool... =)  Time to
> > scrounge up another 4-8mb PCI card and see if I can do tri-headed!! ;)
> 
> For some reason I misread that as "4-8 port PCI [video] hub" and I was
> trying to fit out how such a beast would work.
> 
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