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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.apps:1043 comp.os.linux.misc:11005 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: DOOM for X Message-ID: <CMpL7A.Dtw@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <SJA.94Mar12174713@gamma.hut.fi> <2m0h7a$3ck@u.cc.utah.edu> <SJA.94Mar15122613@gamma.hut.fi> Distribution: inet Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 13:52:15 GMT Lines: 16 In article <SJA.94Mar15122613@gamma.hut.fi> sja@snakemail.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) writes: >All of this is academic, though, in that modifying the MIT X server >to be a shared library is a decidedly non-trivial task... One problem that has to be addressed is the interaction between different processes. If switching between them can occur during a graphical operation, the windows might all be in different positions by the time the first process gets to run again. Perhaps someone can refresh my memory of how this worked in SunWindows? -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk "Your monkey has got it right, sir." - HHGTTG