Subject: Re: NetBSD/alpha and wscons
To: None <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/17/1999 10:27:31
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 18:50:16 +0100 
 drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de wrote:

 > > In which
 > > case X probably wouldn't be too happy.  Or the fact that one can
 > > combine graphics and text on a non-X screen if one writes the
 > > appropriate app.
 > 
 > It would need a switching protocol so that the X server
 > can claim a screen and disallow wscons access until it gives
 > it up.

I was brainstorming about this while driving in San Francisco last night
(the car is a great place to brainstorm when you accidentally leave your
stereo faceplate 45 miles away :-), and will send some e-mail about this
when I've fleshed it out some.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>