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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Why is resouce manager property only set on Screen 0 ?
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Date: 25 Sep 89 17:27:34 GMT
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    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.