paulet@terre.matra-espace.fr (Pascal PAULET 6109 FAMI2) (02/05/91)
Hello xperts, can you tell me if anybody knows implementations where a single host supports multiple displays (not screens!). I know that this is theoritically possible thanks to the host:display.screen format of the XOpenDisplay argument. Thank you. Pascal.
klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) (02/06/91)
In article <9102041741.AA03063@TERRE.matra-espace.fr>, paulet@terre.matra-espace.fr (Pascal PAULET 6109 FAMI2) writes: |> can you tell me if anybody knows implementations where a single host |> supports multiple displays (not screens!). Some of the serial X terminals do this. They have one or more servers running on the host in addition to the server controlling the host display. Each server has a different display number in the host:display.screen syntax. -- Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee
pmartz@undies.dsd.es.com (Paul Martz) (02/06/91)
In article <9102041741.AA03063@TERRE.matra-espace.fr>, paulet@terre.matra-espace.fr (Pascal PAULET 6109 FAMI2) writes: > can you tell me if anybody knows implementations where a single host > supports multiple displays (not screens!). I know that this is > theoritically possible thanks to the host:display.screen format > of the XOpenDisplay argument. > > Thank you. > > Pascal. You can do this on most any X implementations by bringing up X and then bringing up xscope, which acts as both a client to the first server and a server unto itself. Subsequent clients can display on either host:0.screen (the X server) or host:1.screen (xscope). (xscope is useful for debugging at the protocol layer; there are other tools which work in similar fashions. I believe it's in the contrib directory of the X source tree.) -- -paul pmartz@dsd.es.com
kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) (02/06/91)
In article <1991Feb5.145420@wsl.dec.com> klee@wsl.dec.com writes: >In article <9102041741.AA03063@TERRE.matra-espace.fr>, paulet@terre.matra-espace.fr (Pascal PAULET 6109 FAMI2) writes: >|> can you tell me if anybody knows implementations where a single host >|> supports multiple displays (not screens!). > >Some of the serial X terminals do this. They have one or more servers >running on the host in addition to the server controlling the host >display. Each server has a different display number in the >host:display.screen syntax. > I believe that Roell's X386 server, which allows a server on each virtual terminal, must do this. Caveat: I haven't tried it, so sue me if I'm wrong. -- Kaleb Keithley kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov As of right now, I'm in charge here now... Alexander Haig. Voodoo Economics, that's what it is, voodoo economics. George Bush
david@phys.anu.edu.au (David Baldwin) (02/07/91)
In article <9102041741.AA03063@TERRE.matra-espace.fr>, paulet@terre.matra-espace.fr (Pascal PAULET 6109 FAMI2) writes: |>can you tell me if anybody knows implementations where a single host |>supports multiple displays (not screens!). I know that this is |>theoritically possible thanks to the host:display.screen format |>of the XOpenDisplay argument. |>Pascal. |> AIXwindows on the RS6000 supports this. It is possible to run X on multiple virtual terminals using 'open xinit' from the hft, and swapping between them using <(right-Alt)-ctrl/act>, etc David. -- ================================================================================ = David Baldwin Internet: david@phys.anu.edu.au Head, School Computer Unit, Phone: (intl) +61+6+2490104 Research School of Physical Sciences, (Australia) (06) 249 0104 Australian National University FAX: (intl) +61+6+2491884 Canberra, ACT, Australia (Australia) (06) 249 1884 ================================================================================ =
mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (02/07/91)
> can you tell me if anybody knows implementations where a single host > supports multiple displays (not screens!). I hacked on the MIT Xsun so that it can timeshare a single screen/keyboard/mouse among multiple displays. From the point of view of X clients, there are many displays on the machine; it's just that only one of them at a time is actually displayed on the screen or accepting device input. I do not have this in distributable form. If anyone wants to take their chances with the code, the relevant files can be found in the anonymous ftp area on 132.206.1.1, in X/myX/X11R4/server/ddx/sun/. I can answer questions about it but do not presently have time to make diffs and clean it up and get it ready to release. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
MAP@LCS.MIT.Edu (Michael A. Patton) (02/08/91)
In article <9102041741.AA03063@TERRE.matra-espace.fr> paulet@terre.matra-espace.fr (Pascal PAULET 6109 FAMI2) writes:
can you tell me if anybody knows implementations where a single host
supports multiple displays (not screens!).
Yes! The workstation I am using right now has two displays. It's a
pretty stock X consortium release running on a pretty stock 4.3tahoe
on a pretty stock MicroVAX-III (this is MIT, nothing is completely
standard issue :-). The machine has two QDSS interfaces with displays
attached, each is an independant display (unix:0.0 and unix:1.0).
Right now there are two different people logged in.harry@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Harry Phinney) (02/08/91)
Pascal PAULET writes: > can you tell me if anybody knows implementations where a single host > supports multiple displays (not screens!). Sure. Several of the HP series 800 machines are capable of supporting up to 4 displays per machine. Harry Phinney harry@hp-pcd.cv.hp.com
sanders@peyote.cactus.org (Tony Sanders) (02/12/91)
In article <9102041741.AA03063@TERRE.matra-espace.fr> paulet@terre.matra-espace.fr (Pascal PAULET 6109 FAMI2) writes: >can you tell me if anybody knows implementations where a single host >supports multiple displays (not screens!). I know that this is >theoritically possible thanks to the host:display.screen format >of the XOpenDisplay argument. Gee, how's this on a RS/6000 sanders% echo $DISPLAY unix:14.0 Oooooh, aaaaaaah, :-) I was running 15 X servers (one per virtual terminal). I don't know what the maximum number is, and I don't care to find out. It's mostly useful to run a couple of displays when debugging X stuff. -- sanders@peyote.cactus.org This has been a shareware post, and it still is. If you enjoyed this posting please send lot-o-money to your nearest IRS office. Oh, you have to do that anyway, nevermind. I am not an IBM representative and I speak only for myself.