Re: Split screen X11 server

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Simon Bennett (simonb++at++wormald.com.au)
Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:29:03 +1000 (EST)

> Hi Performer:
> I know this is not a proper place to ask this but since you are all
> graphics expert, I suppose you might know where to direct me for further
> informations.
> I have a motif GUI/X graphics application that has to display on a
> large screen composed of 24 smaller screens each of 800x600 resolution.
> Is there any special implementation of X11 server that can take all
> the smaller screens as a logical one screen and open up a window on it.
> (across several smaller screens)
> I would appreciate any informations for me to be in further contact with,
> any mail list.. home pages.. all welcomed.

This could be a little off beam, but you might want to look at virtual
window managers like fvwm which can cope with spreading a single window
across multiple (virtual) root windows - I don't know how or if it deals
with multiple physical displays. It's available at:

        ftp://ftp.hpc.uh.edu/pub/fvwm

Some related URL's which might lead you to that which you seek are:

        http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~tkelly/docs/proj/fvwm.html
        http://www.ssc.com/~roland/fvwm/fvwm.html
        http://xenon.chem.uidaho.edu/~fvwm/
        http://namu19.gwdg.de/fvwm/fvwm.html
        http://mars.superlink.net/user/ekahler/fvwm.html

I believe that there is also commercial product that allows windows to
span across physical X11 DISPLAY's - much like the Mac but I can't
recall the details just now...

Hope this helps...

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