Re: [foxboro] Dual headed Humingbird displays?





Good morning Stan.

If your two headed XP boxes have two distinct heads (ipaddress:0 and
ipaddress:1),  you can specify the target head with the xstart command
"/usr/openwin/bin/xterm  -display ipaddress:0 -e /usr/fox/blah/blah/blah
OR /usr/openwin/bin/xterm  -display ipaddress:1 -e
/usr/fox/blah/blah/blah".

I have a W2K PC with two monitors, but it is not dual headed in the UNIX
sense. It is only one desktop (ipaddress:0), stretched across 2 monitors.
I don't know about XP.

You may need to use LINUX, *BSD, or Solaris for X86 to get this
functionality on PC hardware.

      -Regards, Brian Bates.




                                                                                
                                                     
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We have a system with displays in a remote control room that are on a PC
running Hummingbird. We use another X server for our remote display
managers,
but this system was engineered by Foxboro, and they were insistent about
using Hummingbird. So, my PC side group is unfamiliar with Hummingbird, and
between the 2 groups we have not been able to figure out how to make this
work.

Now, my operators want a second head on these machines. I thought this
would be simple, and I have already gotten dual headed video cards, and LCD
panels working with XP for these units. But I can't figure out how to get
Hummingbird to start up pointed to a specify head. I want to be able to
start up 2 separate display manager sessions, with one coming up full
screen
on the primary display, and the other coming up on the secondary display.

Can anyone point me in the right direction on this?

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neither liberty nor safety."
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