128 window limit

[Jay Cotton]

Paul Collins wrote:
> On 2005Jun03 09h06 IST, Brad Best wrote:
> 
>>I've been trying for some time to find out how to change the max. number of
>>open windows in an X session, to no avail.
>>I have multiple 9-head workstations (with ATI Radeon 7000 PCI cards) set up
>>with Xinerama (which by the way works beautifully), but would like to be
>>able 
>>to open more than 128 windows/programs (with all that room, it doesn't take
>>long to hit the limit).  I've looked through the config
>>files and some of the source code and also searched mailing lists etc., but
>>I can't seem to find any information?  Am I missing something
>>obvious/trivial, or is this not possible, or...?
> 
> 
> You may be able to increase the MAX_CLIENTS define.  I think there was
> some discussion about this and potential pitfalls on the list some time
> ago, although I cannot find the relevant messages now.
> 
Sun made a modification to MAX_CLIENTS, up'd it to 1024.  There are problems
with the protocol, we had to shave some bits off a few masks to get space.

Not lovely code, but it does work.  I don't thinks its currently public
code, but if there is demand, I suppose we could make it public.


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