SUMMARY Desktop spanning multiple screens sought.

From: Daniel Kluge (danielk@tibco.com)
Date: Mon Jan 04 1999 - 09:08:51 CST


Whoa, this was quick...

The most common answer was X/BigX from xsoftware, to be found at
http://www.x-software.com/Software/Xbig/

Other suggestions: Reflection X (this is a PC X-Server, not what I
was looking for), and Parallax Video Cards including Drivers.

Thanx to:
    Dieter Gobbers <gobbers@faw.uni-ulm.de>
    Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com>
    stafforj@core.afcc.com (Johnie Stafford)
    "Day, David" <david.day@sous.com>
    "Brandon K. Devlin" <bdevlin@ink.org>

Original question:

> I searched the whole lot, but didn't find the exact solution, so we
> reiterate again:
>
> A User requested to have a single Desktop (under Solaris 2.6),
> similar to our Dual-Headed NT Machines, where the desktop spans
> both Screens (with all assorted nasties, that arise from this setup).
>
> I know, this is quite tricky, since the usual setup is to have a X-
> Server per screen, and a Desktop per screen.
>
> I know that there is at least one commercial solution for this, but
> cannot recall the name/manufacturer. The solution doesn't have to be
> CDE, it just has to work :-)
>
> TIA, will summarize,
>
> -daniel

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