On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:22:15PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:53:08PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: >>> hi, >>> >>> does anybody know whether is possible for one process to own different >>> windows on different X displays ? >> Conceptionally there should be no _X_ problem at all 'interesting' X >> functions take a Display argument, and I see no reason why one should >> not be able to feed different values there. >> However, I doubt this will work with Qt: >> qx11info_x11.h: static Display *display(); >>> (dream: "lfun-new-window-on-display 15" will let more people to share >>> one document online.) >> Not within the next few years ;-) > > Actually, I don't think we're so far away from that dream ;-) > Concurrent editing is something that is not conceptually very different > from multi-view, we just need to 'lock' the lfun server while a view is > being edited.
The Gui would need to run in a separate process as right now there's (at most) one X Display per Qt process and it is rather unlikely to change. And we are still a bit away from a "real" GUI/Core separation. Andre'
