Re: [AD] multiple windows

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-08-18, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 18 August 2006 4:16 am, Peter Wang wrote:
> > On 2006-08-18, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Friday 18 August 2006 3:37 am, Peter Wang wrote:
> > > > On 2006-08-18, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > especially if you use the crapy form
> > > > > of multi display, where you have to actually tell the apps to launch
> > > > > on DISPLAY=:$DISPLAY.N
> > > >
> > > > I don't see how you could avoid it.  How could a program know which X
> > > > server to contact?
> > >
> > > The user tells it to?
> >
> > Isn't that what your command is doing?  How else?
> 
> That doesn't actually let a user of say and allegro program to start one 
> window on one "sub display" or server, and another window on another.

But your complaint was that you needed to tell an app which X server to
connect to.  I asked, if not by an environment variable, how else?  Ok,
I can think of a couple: command-line option, config file, ...
What are they supposed to do?

Peter