[rescue] octane question

[Dave McGuire]

On January 17, s at avoidant.org wrote:
> > > deal with :0.0 to :0.1 dragging issues. 
> 
> Reminds me; Is there a way to do this? My experience is that windows
> opened on a particular display are locked to that display. If I can move
> them around, I'll be really, really happy.

  The restriction there is that X11 client<->server communications
take place on TCP connections on port 6000+(screen number)...so :0.0
is port 6000, :0.1 is port 6001, etc...you can't take a TCP connection
and change its destination port in midstream...you have to drop it and
reestablish.  Of course that means all client state will be lost,
unless the client is [carefully and painfully] written to maintain all
of its state through shutdowns.

  As far as I'm aware nobody has come up with a way to get around
this.

  Myself I don't really see it as a huge limitation.  I've been using
multiheaded X displays for the past decade and am so used to the
"can't drag between screens" rule that I don't even think about it.
What probably makes it easier for me is the fact that I tend to use
multiple screens for different things, segregating classes of work
between them so I rarely even have the desire to drag stuff from one
to the next.  At digex, for example, I used a triple-headed machine
for much of the time.  I had my real-time monitoring stuff on the
left, my email and other communications stuff (ytalk, etc) on the
right, and whatever I was actually working on in the center.

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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