Re: Multimonitor support in Wine?

[Thomas Tornblom]

> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:37:44 -0700
> To: [e-mail]
> From: Rob D 
> Subject: Multimonitor support in Wine?
>
> 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.

Pardon me, but what is the problem with xinerama in CDE on solaris? I have been 
running that on a couple of sunrays at work for at least a year with no 
problems. The sunray servers are running solaris 9.
> 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.
> Whether the method to support this functionality is built in or needs to be 
> coded, I have not yet determined, since nearly every file in dlls/x11drv 
> directory uses these members and constructs.
>
> If someone has any insight on how to implement this or where I should focus 
> my efforts, it would be very helpful.
>
> TIA
> Rob Done

Cheers,
Thomas

Multimonitor support in Wine?

[Rob D]

At 12:53 AM 11/1/2005, Thomas Tornblom wrote:
> <snip>
> > 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.
>
> Pardon me, but what is the problem with xinerama in CDE on solaris? I have 
> been
> running that on a couple of sunrays at work for at least a year with no
> problems. The sunray servers are running solaris 9.
>
> </snip>

I think xinerama runs fine on Sparc machines.
I forgot to mention that this is on PC version.
I have read documentation about xinerama not working correctly on the PC 
version, but I dont recall where.
I (briefly) tried xinerama mode anyway, but it just flashed the montors a 
few times and kicked back to login.
Xinerama mode would give me a bit more time, but the end product must be 
separate displays.

Thanks
Rob Done