On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 10:22:38AM -0600, Chris Frost wrote: > I have a quick question that I hope ya'll might be able to answer for > me... > > I'd like to setup a second box as an X server that would allow me to treat > it like another desktop (ala workspace in window maker). I know of the > -display flags and such, but would like to be able to move a running > program's display from one box to another (so that I can read a web page > and have several xterms open and viewable at the same time for example). > Is there any way to do this? I figured that since Window Maker has built > in > support for multi headed boxes, this wouldn't be very different. > > tia, > -- > Chris > <- Visit Me At <http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/> -> > > <------------------------------------------------------------------------------> > Public PGP Key: > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject "retrieve pgpkey" or > visit <http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/pgp_key.phtml>
What you want isn't multi-head. Multi-head means that a computer has two graphics cards and multiple X servers run on those graphics cards, combining the display. There is a package called x2x that lets you emulate this functionality with two different networked computers. I think it will be able to do what you want. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
