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From: chan@hpfcmr.HP.COM (Chan Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: multiple-server clients
Message-ID: <1200002@hpfcmr.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Jul 88 16:10:11 GMT
References: <853@macondo.SW.MCC.COM>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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> Xlib handles multiple servers with the notion of a `default server'.
> All C calls on Xlib are directed toward that server.  The call to
> connect to a server returns a handle to that server, and makes it the
> default:
> 
> 	display = XOpenDisplay (server_name);
> 
> The default display can be changed:
> 
> 	XSetDisplay (display);
 
Note that this describes the way things are done in X10. In X11, Xlib 
calls almost universally take a display argument that indicates which
server to direct the request to.

			-- Chan