Re: [AD] multiple windows

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On Friday 18 August 2006 4:38 am, Peter Wang wrote:
> 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?

They can do what they want. Freedom is a good thing ;) Just ask Bush ;D

> Peter
>
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