[Xprint] Re: Unified video+print Xserver / was: Re:Modularization mailing list and initial strawman proposal

[Roland Mainz]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:51, Egbert Eich wrote:
> > Julien Lafon writes:
> >  > Xprint applications are scheduled by the X server as normal X clients
> >  > and do not behave differently. I do not see a different of having two
> >  > video cards or one video card and a print screen in one Xserver.
> >
> > Multiple heads on a display share some common infrastructure.
> > The entire input semantics is (currently) coupled to a single
> > focus.
> 
> That's an aspect I hadn't considered before.  When running a unified server,
> can your mouse get lost on the print screen?

No, the server code has checks to ensure the mouse (and other input
devices) won't leave the video screens. By design the video screen(s)
are always coming first (and then the print screen(s) follow) so you
will never have something like
videoscreen0,videoscreen1,printscreen0,videoscreen2 (which would be hard
to handle correctly for the mouse pointer stuff... =:-)

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Bye,
Roland

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