Am Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:33:15 +0000 schrieb Glynn Clements <[email protected]>:
> > Gerald Dachs wrote: > > > How to move an application window between 2 independent (no > > Twinview, no Xinerama) > > screens of a x servern from outside of the application? > > Do I have to use something like xmove? It looks so over sized, > > because it is mainly for movement between different x servers on > > different machines. > > > > I suspect that it won't be so simple that I can XUnmapWindow the > > window, change the screen somehow and XMapWindow the window again. > > You can't move a window between screens. For a start, many server-side > entitites (e.g. pixmaps) are tied to a particular screen, so the > client won't be able to use existing pixmaps (etc) if the window was > to suddenly move to a different screen. > > Also, the new screen may have a different depth, visual etc, and the > client isn't expecting these properties to suddenly change. > > You either start the client on a proxy X server with "mobile" output > (e.g. Xvnc), or this sort of thing has to be done in the client. Too sad that it will not work, I don't believe that a proxy like Xvnc or xmove will be fast enough for xbmc showing movies, thanks anyway for your fast answer. Gerald _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
