[rescue] forwarded message from s at avoidant.org

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Jan 17 12:24:35 CST 2002


  [forwarded to list per Sambo's request]

Dave McGuire wrote:

>   The restriction there is that X11 client<->server communications
> take place on TCP connections on port 6000+(screen number)...so :0.0


I knew this, I was just hopefull.


> 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


That's how I do it as well, but once in a while i'll spawn something and
wish I'd done it on a different screen.

So, anyone got a 24-bit SBUS framebuffer they'll sell cheap? then I'll
switch to xinerama and not worry about it anymore.


---sambo

-- 
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf



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