On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > put it that way: i *know* that you can use > Xinerama to make two heads behave like one bigger screen without the > windowmanager or another Xclient worrying about it. i also know that > UNIX and X don't really care whether something is local or through the > network. ergo: i want a second head to be established through the > network onto the Xserver which dominates the screen 2cm to the right > of where i am typing this now. i doubt i'll need tools like x2x for > that, what i am really looking for is a Screen entry for the > ServerLayout section, which doesn't reference a Screen section, but > rather something like 1.2.3.4:0.0 to make the 0.0 display of the > machine at 1.2.3.4 behave just like a local screen. is this possible? > or possible through other means?
I'm not aware that it is currently possible, but it does suggest a possible new feature. How about a video driver who's hardware is a remote X connection ? Rather like Ricardo A. Baratto's suggestion of a null video driver (to replace the null X server Xfvb). It should support encryption (I'm thinking ssh or ssl) by default, and compression where appropriate (a number of X protocol compression schemes have been proposes, but none have really taken off). It would also be nice if it could also connect to VNC servers. Anyone looking for a cool project ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
