Multimonitor support in Wine?
Marcus Meissner
marcus at jet.franken.de
Tue Nov 1 03:39:33 CST 2005
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:37:44PM -0700, Rob D wrote:
>
> Its me again.
>
> Ive been trying to figure how to get a (single) Wine application to be able
> to display dialogs on each of 3 monitors in a non xinerama setup (DISPLAY
> :0.0, :0.1, and :0.2).
>
> I am well aware that xinerama mode would allow this quite easily, but
> xinerama is not an option, partly since CDE on Solaris will not work in
> xinerama mode, and a little thing called Software Requirements
> Specification.
>
> I am also aware this isnt specifically a wine issue, but in researching
> what could be done about over the past week, I found several references to
> gdi_display, x11drv_thread_data, and various other constructs and class
> members in Wine that describe which display to use. This leads me to
> believe there is some method to allow Wine to enable the desired
> functionality.
The .x DISPLAY component is "Screen" in X11 speak.
So far we have no special X11 Screen handling in our code as far as I know.
I would also not know how to map the Windows API to X11 Screens :/
There are "WindowStations"
Ciao, Marcus
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