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Using the Window Manager with Multiple Screens

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By default, the mwm manages one screen. Managing multiple screens can be specified in two ways:

Using resources.
Editing the startup command for mwm.

Using Resources to Manage Multiple Screens

The following resources configure the window manager to manage multiple screens:

To specify that mwm manage multiple screens, use the resource:
Mwm*multiScreen: True
This tells mwm to try to manage all screens that the server manages.
To define the screen names, use the resource screenList. For example, the following resource names two screens zero and one.
Mwm*screenList: zero one

Specifying Multiple Screens from the Command Line

You can use command-line options to start mwm so that it manages multiple screens.

The -display option specifies the display. It has the syntax:
-display hostname:display.screen
The -multiscreen option causes mwm to manage all the screens on the specified display.
The -screens option specifies the screen names used to obtain screen-specific resources.

For example,

   mwm -display local:0.1 -multiscreen -screens zero one

causes mwm to manage all the screens on display 0. Screen 0 is named zero, and screen 1 is named one.




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