"Tim" == Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
Tim> It's been my experience that dual, tri and even quad monitor Tim> setups just "work" these days. Though I did hit a funny one the Tim> other day, I had a co-worker who discovered that the the maximum Tim> number of xterms he could have running was ~240. Was that because he's hit some sort of limit on the number of open file descriptors for his login, or something like that? Can you give us more details on this issue? First I've ever heard of it and I'm a big big xterm user. :-) I like minimal terminals that don't waste screen real estate. Tim> I pointed out that gterm/mterm or any of the other tabable Tim> terminals don't suffer this limitation but he's old school and Tim> wants to use xterm... It should be noted he also actively uses Tim> more than 36 desktop pages as well where these windows were Tim> strewn across. He must cry when his session gets logged out and he has to rebuild all his setup work, even if it does snapshot all those terminal windows, etc. I'm just amazed at that level of keeping track of windows....