Suggestions for properly abstracting multiple screens.

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently multiple screens are not handled in the prettiest way. I
>  have some suggestions how it could handled in a sane way.
>
>  Create a root window for every physical screen, with it's own
>  framebuffer. In normal situations use that window and expose that to
>  applications.
>
>  Allow "fake" windows to superimposed over multiple root windows, this
>  could be used if a user wants to treat two screens as one.
>
>  Some "rules":
>
>  - Don't try hacks like xinerama.
>  - Only expose real screens to rendering backends.
>  - Use screen coordinates in most of the server, only using the "fake"
>  windows when deciding how to clip pictures, when communicating with
>  clients, etc.
>
>  Any thoughts on this?

ajax was working on a project called "shatter" to address this, I'm
not sure what the status is.

Alex