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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