Philipp Lohmann - Sun Germany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Marcus Sundman wrote: > I would like to call to attention the fact that two unix screens > need not be on the same computer. It's terribly convenient to have > an X server hooked up to a projector and a wlan base station. Then > anyone in the room can easily show their stuff on the projector > without having to switch cables and move computers around etc. > So, instead of just specifying the display as "0.1" one should > also be able to say "my-other-computer:0". This shouldn't be a > problem, except that remote screens can't be enumerated and > therefore the drop-down list of displays should be a combobox (or > contain an element named "Remote:" which, when selected, would > display a text field below it). This would add the need for multi display capabilities. I think that's a little out of scope for now.
It isn't. If you don't use Xinerama (e.g. if you have screens of different resolutions, which often is the case) then you have to use multiple displays. So, why couldn't the two displays be on different computers then?
I'm not saying this must be present in windows versions of OOo, just in unix versions, where this is a very common way of doing things. I'm not very familiar with how X servers work (I'm not completely unfamiliar either, I've done some X programming), but afaik there is very little (or nothing) a program has to do to support different displays. E.g. I can set my DISPLAY variable to point to any X server on the network and then all X applications I run will pop up on that server. Is there ANY reason why a program could not easily display windows on two different X servers at the same time?
If you have an entire different Xserver, just start the whole OOo on that server and play your presentation.
Huh? If I run OOo on that server then how am I supposed to see the notes, next and previous slides, timeline, etc. on my laptop's screen? No matter which X server I run OOo, I still need to have one window on one server and another on the other.
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