re x server multi screen in article qlop sgp sun eeam elin co at rainer sun eeam elin co at rainer hochreiter writes i ve seen a lot of different terms which seem to mean the same thing who can give an exact definition what these terms mean multi screen multi headed multi display x server zaphod mode as applied to servers the first three are fuzzy terms multi headed tends to be used for any system with multiple monitors sometimes even multiple screens even if they re multiplexed onto the same monitor eg a sun with a cg display multi screen and multi display would if taken strictly mean different things but since the strict meaning of multi display would refer to a system with multiple keyboards and pointers when it s used it probably refers to the same thing multi screen would a system that provides multiple screens zaphod is a term applied to the way the mit server switches the pointer from one screen to another by sliding it off the side of the screen is there a limit how many screens displays a single server can handle in an articel a read something about an upper limit of there is a protocol limitation that restricts a given display to at most screens i know of no server that handles multiple displays on a single invocation unless possibly my kludges to the r server can be looked upon as such on a tcp based system there is necessarily a limit of displays per machine but this is not a limitation inherent to x what you read was most likely talking about a limit in some particular implementation probably the mit one if it claimed there was a limit of inherent to x the author of the article had no business writing about x der mouse mouse mcrcim mcgill edu
