Re: Multi-, different- monitors is multi-hopeless?

On 2009-01-18, ebik <ebik-H9J1Vg6NExntwjQa/[email protected]> wrote:
> There is
> currently no option to multiple screens than xrandr today.

Yes there is: it's called plain-old-X-multihead, or _the clean
solution_ that doesn't smell of a rotten kludge to the other side
of the globe. *Eugh*, adding more screens by pre-allocating a huge
root window and then adding views to it, *eugh*, *puke*, *blaargh*.
And that's the approach taken to everything these days in 
Futile/fascist Open Sore Software. (Futile, because it's destined
to become just another incredibly poor bastard son of Windows and
MacOS, instead of offering a real choice. Fascist, because it
offers no practical choice anymore; only the _purely theoretical_
choice of forking the code yourself, wasting your life on it.)

How about just creating new root windows dynamically? And using 
the same old APIs that are used for any other windows?

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