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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: multi-head
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-07-02 14:13:42
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On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Cristian Tibirna wrote:

> > how is that technically done? two X-servers instances running ?
> 
> No, X specification is very nice in this respect. Screens are seen as
> objects pertaining to the unique desktop represented by your machine
> (which runs *one* X server). When you run many X server instances, you get
> many displays: machine:0, machine:1 etc. Screens are numbered:
> machine:0.0, machine:0.1 etc.

The XFree86 people demonstrated kwm and kpanel running on XFree86-3.9
on three physical screens.

Regards,
-- martin

// Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany  //
KDE:  A stable GUI for a reliable OS.

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