On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>
> > Do you mean the Xinerama Extension protocol under Twinview?
> > I suppose I could do that. I'll look into it.
>
> See
>
>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xinerama/xinerama/xc/doc/XineramaSpec.txt?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
>
> The required functionality should be very very simple to add: it's only
> four requests.
That's not the Xinerama protocol you want. That is the pending
X.Org specification which none of the current applications support
(I am one of the authors of that specification).
> Once done, then
>
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Xinerama-HOWTO.html#s8
> indicates that (at least) the Enlightenment and Sawfish window managers
> will behave nicely, and
> http://www.mandrake.net/displaynews.cgi?april4.2000
Yes, I wrote XFree86's current Xinerama protocol because Raster and
Mandrake were bugging me about what they could do if they had knowledge
of the layout.
> indicates that gtk+ should be well-behaved. This should be enough for the
> GNOME environment; and
> http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelog2_1to2_2.html
> indicates that KDE will behave nicely too.
> --s
>
> p.s. if the 'nvidia' driver were open source, i could do this myself.
I doubt that.
Mark.
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