On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 01:46:01PM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote:
> It is running though, as I am able to move the mouse between screens.

you can do that without Xinerama. :)

the main difference between Xinerama and non-xinerama setups is how it
treats the displays. with xinerama, all the screens are display ':0.0'.
without it, you have displays :0.0, :0.1, :0.2, so on and so forth.

with multiple displays, applications need to be multipipe-aware, in order to
take advantage of it. the FGFS flight simulator is the only
commonly/freely-available X app that I know of, which can do this. (tho I've
heard rumors that some Doom variant can, and I've seen a hacked-up Unreal
Tournament running on several separate displays at once [tho they actually
used 2 'spectators' turned 90-degrees left and right, for the side displays])

with a single display, applications don't (usually, in theory) know that
they're being dragged from one screen to another, since it all appears as
one screen to them.

Carl Soderstrom.
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Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com