On 8/31/23 10:01, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
I don't know exactly why they named things as they did. One possibility is that the idea was that a display could consist of several physical devices, like an airport display for arrivals and deparatures.

I don't either, but https://www.x.org/wiki/guide/concepts/#displaysandscreens
is an attempt to explain what those names mean now.

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