[Lazarus] Moving forms between (unix) displays

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Fri Dec 5 23:03:53 CET 2014


I've been playing with Xdmx on 2x computers with 4x screens since I've 
got an interest in some stuff that would benefit from a lot of display 
space. I can report that Lazarus ran well with it provided that X's 
rendering was disabled, but unfortunately lots of other stuff- in 
particular Firefox/Iceweasel- was far less tolerant, either crashing or 
being glacially slow. There were also lingering keyboard layout problems.

A compromise appears to be x2x, which allows a single keyboard and mouse 
to control displays on multiple computers. However in this case windows 
can't span multiple displays, and can't be dragged between displays.

Noting that Lazarus runs well over SSH, and that this extends to apps 
written using the LCL, is there any way of specifying that a 
newly-created form should run on a particular (non-local) display, or of 
moving forms between displays?

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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