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> 
> Hi,

> I imagine that the program would have to be an X "proxy" server, with
> the X clients conneting to it, and the program piping them to a set
> of attached real X servers, where the set can contain any number
> (even 0) of X servers. I know little about the internals of X but I
> can imagine it should be possible.

You know, with the client and server nature of X this ought to be fairly
straightforward to do, but I don't think I've ever seen or heard of such
a thing.

I see two basic alternatives, a "shim" that a single client application
connects to as if it were the X server, then the shim connects as a
client to multiple X servers, or a shim that acts as X server to
multiple clients (including a window manager) and then connects as a
client to multiple "normal" X servers, showing root window and all in
one window on those servers.

Has anyone seen such a thing?  It sounds like an interesting problem for
learning about X programming that's not yet another window manager nor
yet another widget library.  I guess I'd better go get the protocol spec
and take a close look at this.

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