OT: Who owns the desktop?

[Fairlight]

At Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 01:38:31AM -0400 or thereabouts, 
suspect Jay Ashworth was observed uttering:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
> 
> > You can get geometry of the desktop in pTk. Not sure about what it does
> > with multi-head displays. It predates most multi-head display setups.
> > Unknown.
> 
> Note that the problem here is that *the X server doesn't know* the screen
> is spread over 2 monitors, *because the video card is lying to it*.
> 
> This is not at all uncommon.

And Elsinore Screenconnect lets you view specific heads...how?  :)  Well,
I've never connected to a linux host, mostly because -every- single bloody
linux host I've tried with is missing the JRE/JDK component that handles
ClickOnce for Firefox.

But I know damned well it works with Windows, as I was on a 3-head system
two weeks ago.  I'm just assuming it works the same with linux and OS/X,
since it is billed as completely multi-platform compatible.  I think the
only part that's Windows-only is the unattended, and I think they may have
addressed that, actually, if I remember correctly.

I digress...I've been coding for 6hrs.  (Milters...the only non-embedded
environment harder to debug than CGI.)

Anyway, I'm saying it's possible to get that data -somehow-, on at least
some OSes.

Wouldn't surprise me if pTk thought it was all one unified space, though.
Makes sense if it's treated as one ginormous desktop.  I'd just like to
know how some things -do- know about it--other than things specifically
written by vidcard manufacturers.

mark->
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