Today at 4:58pm, Peter Peltonen wrote:

> "man X" gives me the following information:
> 
> >From the user's perspective, every X server has a  display
> name of the form:
> 
> --snip--
> hostname:displaynumber.screennumber
> 
> This  information  is used by the application to determine
> how it should connect to the server and  which  screen  it
> should  use  by  default  (on displays with multiple moni�
> tors):
> --snip--
> 
> Now, when I try rxvt -display unix:0.0, it works fine. But 
> when I try rxvt -display unix:0.1, I get the following error
> message:
> 
> rxvt: can't open display unix:0.1
> 
> Have I misunderstood X's behaviour, is my X broken or does
> Blackbox not support this feature (or what is workspace if
> not a screen)?

No, indeed a workspace is not a screen, as one might think. A screen is
either just another video card and Monitor, or a virtual screen (such as
Fvvm can use. Fvwm can use big virtual rootwindows as well, which is
another story) So all blackbox workspaces live on :0.0

It might be possible if the app used some special WM hints? I don't know
that.
 
> I'm asking this because I really would like to define to my
> .Xclients file to open apps in different workspaces when I 
> start X...
> 
> Peter
> 

Wilbert

 

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