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Re: NSPasteboard on X, what to do?


From: Jeff Teunissen
Subject: Re: NSPasteboard on X, what to do?
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:12:20 -0500

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

[snip]

> It's a little more complicated than that.
> 
> In X terminology, AFAIK, there's no  'screen'. So this term is free to
> refer to  the physical  screen, ie. the  monitor (and I  understand as
> such), unless  it refers  to OpenStep screens,  which correspond  to X
> displays.
> 
> So,  there are  X  servers. Each  X server  may  manage a  range of  X
> displays. The  X display may be  mapped to video  RAM itself projected
> onto the screen of a monitor.  But one may run several displays on the
> same screen  (monitor). For  example, you could  have display  :0.0 on
> vt07 and display :0.1 on vt08.

:0.0 and :0.1 are different screens of the same display.

DISPLAY=[HOST]:<DISPLAY>[.<SCREEN>]

[snip]

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