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Re: 23.0.50; DISPLAY env var bug on w32?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: 23.0.50; DISPLAY env var bug on w32?
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:17:35 +0200

> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:11:04 +0100
> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
>  address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> David Kastrup wrote:
> > Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> >>> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:59:22 +0100
> >>> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> >>> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, 
> >>>  address@hidden
> >>>
> >>> But what about multiple displays on w32?
> >> What do you mean by ``multiple displays on w32''?  The -d DISPLAY
> >> feature that is standard on X is not supported by Windows.
> > 
> > What about people running an X server on Windows?  Like that from Cygwin
> > or Xceed or so?
> 
> Beside that you can have multiple monitors on w32 too, but I do not know 
> anything about that.

The -d DISPLAY option is not the right mechanism for supporting that,
unless someone teaches the Windows port of Emacs how to do that.
Right now, using -d DISPLAY on Windows causes nothing but trouble.




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