#67 Bug using rootless with double display

[William Raphael Hix]

Hi-

I've been looking forward to rootless XDarwin, hoping that
this would allow use of X on both my Powerbook's internal
display and an external monitor as one 2048x768 display. I
currently use Mac X in this fashion and this is one major
impediment to moving fulltime to OS X.

So I installed the rootless path 1.0a1 and I can report
partial success. I can drag an X client partially onto the
second display, however no client I tried could be completely
off the primary screen. The parts on the second screen
displayed fine and responded to the mouse, I just couldn't
drag them completely onto the second screen. For the
record, I'm using Mac OS X 10.0.4 with XFree 4.1.0 and the
recently released rootless patch. I tried X clients from the
Powerbook and from remote sources. The X setup is the
default, including the use of twm.

[Greg Parker]

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Rootless mode doesn't yet work on multiple screens. For technical reasons, multiple screen rootless is no easier than full-screen.

[Greg Parker]

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Good news: I borrowed a second video card for my machine, and multiple monitor support is almost done. If you're ambitious, a preliminary patch has been posted.

[William Raphael Hix]

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I was surprised by your first message, since things had seemed to
work, except for the inability to completely place a window on the
second display. I'm glad that things are actually much further
along. I'll try out the patch later this week.

[Torrey T. Lyons]

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[Torrey T. Lyons]

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All Quartz modes support multiple monitors with Xinerama in XDarwin 1.0a2.