Multiple Displays - not xinerama

[Brian J. Tarricone]

support for this in xfdesktop is planned, but i don't know about a 
timeframe (if someone wants to work on this, feel free to let me know).  
also, the session manager needs to know about multiple displays, not 
sure as to the status of that.

aside from the session manager, i think the rest is mostly a 
configuration storage issue, as you mention with your experience 
with the panel.  basically anything that could possibly have different 
configurations on each display needs to become multihead-aware.

	-brian

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Chris Greenman wrote:

> Hello all, I never got a response to this one so I figured I'd ask
> again.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 07:58:44 -0800
> Chris Greenman <sol-pkgs at ckgreenman.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all, 
> > 	Are there any plans to add support for multiple, independent
> > 	displays (not xinerama) 
> > like xfce 3 had?  Currently the only way I can run XFCE on dual headed
> > Sun Ultra 10 is with a custom .xinitrc script the starts the usual
> > stuff, changes the DISPLAY variable, then starts the stuff again. 
> > There are a few problems with this method though.
> > 
> > 1.  Logging out must be done from display 0.0.  Logging out from 0.1
> > does nothing.
> > 2.  You can't (easily) maintain different xfce4-panel configurations.
> > 3.  This method does not work with xfce4-session.  
> > 
> > When using xfce4-session I have to start up just a single display then
> > open an xterm, change $DISPLAY, then finish bringing up the second
> > display.  I tried changing the default.session to do the display
> > changing but it doesn't work.  I get errors complaining that "such and
> > such" is already running on that display.  Saving a running session
> > with both displays up also causes the same error when I log out and
> > back in.
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > Chris
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