Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bloom-beacon!EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU!jim From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Why is resouce manager property only set on Screen 0 ? Message-ID: <8909251727.AA02493@expo.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 25 Sep 89 17:27:34 GMT References: <8909240402.AA19863@mandala.think.com> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 14 Currently, xrdb only sets the XA_RESOURCE_MANAGER property on screen 0 of the display. This seems like a mistake. Different screens may have very different characteristics (e.g. color vs. black and white) and thus need different resource defaults. Is there any way to handle this correctly in the current X ? Are changes planned for the future ? Not immediately. The problem is that you really need some of way of classifying resources by visual since the "right" way (in our humble opinion :-) to manage displays that have mono and color planes (or pseudocolor and true color) is to have all of the visuals on one screen instead of two virtual screens.