multi screen apps and window managers i am working on a project to provide an emergency management information system in keeping with more classic command and control type systems we are considering developing a dual screen monitor system in order to provide a status board on it s own monitor i have a number of x level questions regarding this we are devloping on unix systems using x motif platform will be predominantly sun s probably with ports to rs as well i am assuming the standard dual monitor systems are configured such that we are talking about one x display and multiple screens and not multiple x displays given this is changing input focus from one screen to the other as simple as tracking your mouse from one screen to the other there s nothing special that needs to be done to shift focus between screens do i have to run separate window managers on the separate screens or are there multiscreen window managers out there what are they who sells them is a multi screen window manager the only way i can grab a window frame and move a window from one screen to the next is there any way for the application to transparently see multiple screens as one logical x y plane or does the hardware only provide for each screen to start at any thoughts on the difficulties involved with designing a system capable of using either multiple screens or a single screen perhaps running a virtual window manager to simulate multiple screens instead i am assuming that this is not a major issue that i can rely on providing config files which will specify for each configuration the screen placement of each window in the application any thoughts or suggestions from past experience are more than welcome jo pelkey phone battelle pacific northwest labs fax mail stop k email je pelkey pnl gov p o box richland wa
