[rescue] octane question

[Dave McGuire]

On January 17, Dave McGuire 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.

  Yes, I'm replying to my own message.  Deal with it.

  To clarify, the question was specifically regarding dragging between
different X "screens" (where "screen" is a specific concept in X,
represented by the "1" in ":0.1")...I don't know much about Xinerama,
but my basic understanding is that it implements *one* X "screen"...so
all the tubes are screen :0.0, just...bigger. :)

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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