On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 14:24 +0300, Tomas Junnonen wrote:
> The app is however not able to determine the placement of the windows 
> relative to each other, that is up to the window manager. A device with 
> multiple outputs is also not likely map these into a single virtual 
> screen, the management of the windows would be complicated. Instead I 
> would expect the two outputs to be represented as different screens in 
> X. An app can be started on a specific screen with something like 
> "DISPLAY=:2 MyApp". Unfortunately, while for instance Gtk+ allows to 
> specify the X screen when creating a window in an app, Qt apparently 
> does not.

Actually modern X drivers (such as the Intel driver) generally do
represent the union of all outputs as a single X screen, with the RANDR
extension being used to control what outputs get what fragments of the
screen.

Ross
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