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Re: Xinerame ?
- From: "Philippe Bastiani" <philippe dot bastiani at wanadoo dot fr>
- To: "Harold L Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>,"Cygwin" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 18:51:11 +0200
- Subject: Re: Xinerame ?
- References: <200205102032.g4AKWDA34008@pilot03.cl.msu.edu>
Hi,
> As far as I know, Xinerama provides multiple screen support for XFree86.
I
> was never able to find much documentation about Xinerama. However, *you*
> need to explain to *me* why using XFree86's hardware-level multiple screen
> support would provide any benefit (or even make sense) for Cygwin/XFree86,
> which has no direct access to the hardware.
If i understand: Cygwin/XFree86 uses the Windows and/or the Cygwin layers;
and, Xinerama is a hardware layer...
Is it a lack of Cygwin and/or Window, if this feature cannot be implemented
in XFree86 ?
Is it a problem of performance ?
> From what I know about Xinerama (and I could be missing something about
> Xinerama) it has absolutely no application to Cygwin/XFree86.
Most applications (window manager, ...) simulate this feature: but, I
suppose that a direct access to the low level interface is more efficient...
a+