Re: [AD] multiple windows

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On Friday 18 August 2006 3:37 am, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2006-08-18, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 August 2006 5:54 pm, Peter Wang wrote:
> > > Why not?  That's the usual way of using X.
> >
> > It would be interesting to have it support opening windows of an allegro
> > program on a different physical DISPLAY,
>
> Are you confusing multiple "Screens" with multiple "Displays"?  When do
> you need one application to connect to different X servers?  That's
> definitely "exotic".
>
> > 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?

> Peter



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