Re: [CentOS] X11partioning

2013-09-06 Thread Kwan Lowe
> I am searching for a way in X11 to "partition" or "divide" the screen. > For example the physical size of the screen may be 1920x1080 > but what if I want 3 sections like > > A > B C [snip] > Does something like that exist of X11? All this is on the same > physical screen. Just dividin

Re: [CentOS] X11partioning

2013-09-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/6/2013 12:11 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > So the application running in space A does not affect the > application B or C and vice versa. what exactly do you mean by, 'does not affect' ? normally 'windows' provide sufficient isolation... but if the processes are touching each others files, then a

Re: [CentOS] X11partioning

2013-09-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, Jerry Geis wrote: I am searching for a way in X11 to "partition" or "divide" the screen. For example the physical size of the screen may be 1920x1080 but what if I want 3 sections like A B C where A is treated as a screen or division by itself, then B and C the s

Re: [CentOS] X11partioning

2013-09-06 Thread Patrick Flaherty
What's the functionality you want? The only thing I can think of would be each individual window getting it's own paste buffer. On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > I am searching for a way in X11 to "partition" or "divide" the screen. > > For example the physical size of the sc

[CentOS] X11partioning

2013-09-06 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All, I am searching for a way in X11 to "partition" or "divide" the screen. For example the physical size of the screen may be 1920x1080 but what if I want 3 sections like A B C where A is treated as a screen or division by itself, then B and C the same way. Some subset of the scre