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 -- "We really need to demonstrate to people like Nokia why our PDA will connect to Office in a better way than other PDAs even if that means changing how we do flexible schema in Outlook and how we tie some of our audio and video advanced work to only run on our PDAs," -- Bill Gates. July 11, 1999 -- http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62187-2000May24.html
