Re: x-display-list on the Mac

[Jan Djärv]

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu skrev:
> > > > > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:19:14 +0000, David Reitter <address@hidden> said:
>
> > (x-display-screens) returns 1, and (x-display-list) returns only
> > ("Mac"), despite me running two monitors with the desktop spanning
> > across them. That's odd - I would expect to see both displays
> > listed.
>
> The concept of "screen" in X11 is different from what you are thinking
> about.  One window cannot span multiple "screen"s.  I guess you are
> thinking about a "framebuffer" in Xinerama extension.

The build he had done was --without-x.

> > Also, (x-display-pixel-width) returns 1280, which is the width of
> > the display on the left (main screen). How would I find out the
> > total desktop area and the screen a particular frame is on? Can I
> > address the different displays (or screens?) somehow?
>
> No.  Because there is no Xinerama support in the X11 version, Emacs
> doesn't have a concept to distinguish multiple framebuffers yet.


Right, but if you have one X11 screen on two monitors, it should return the 
total width.  This seems to not be the case when compiling for native OSX.

        Jan D.