Thomas,
Heh... I read your response and figured that you were not talking to me :)
Harold
Thomas Chadwick wrote:
By the way, this reponse was directed at Jean-Claude, not you, Harold.
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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 11:15:09 -0500
For kicks, I did some poking around at http://msdn.microsoft.com by
searching on "multiple monitors". Found lots of good reading. You
might want to do the same.
I noticed a hint that said something to the effect of "an application
will try to create its window on the same monitor on which it's
shortcut is located".
What happens if you run startxwin.bat via a shortcut on the secondary
monitor?
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Jean-Claude,
No, there is not way for Cygwin/XFree86 to use the entire area of
the dual-display; that is pretty much a limitation of DirectDraw, if
I recall correctly (I seem to remember that a surface can only span
a single physical monitor). You could probably pass the ``-engine
1'' argument to use the GDI-based blitter, but that would still be
limited to a single physical display because Cygwin/XFree86 trims
the specified size to fit on the primary monitor. We would need
some sort of new command-line argument to indicate that the
specified size is not to be trimmed in anyway, or we could have a
flag that says to use the entire virtual desktop size. I prefer the
later.
In any case, some coding will need to happen before your request can
be realized.
Harold
Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:
Great news Thomas,
Um, since you know so much about dual-displays, maybe you could
help me?
I'm running Cygwin XFree on a machine inside which I have
installed two
video cards; this in effect creates a really large Windows desktop.
I'm just wondering if you know of any way to get the Cygwin
XFree display
to either use the full desktop surface, or failing that, is there a
way to
get Cygwin XFree to start up on the right-hand side of the display,
because
it never seems to want to start on the second display...
Thanks in advance.
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Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin/XFree86 Package: x2x-1.27-2
ANNOUCEMENT
An update to the Cygwin/XFree86 package 'x2x' is now available.
DESCRIPTION
The usefulness of this utility will become apparent to anyone with a PC
side-by-side with an *ix workstation. Simply bring up an XWindows
session
on each machine, run x2x on the PC, and use your PC's mouse and
keyboard to
control your *ix workstation's display. Works better and is
cheaper than a
KVM (Keyboard/Video/Mouse) switch. It also works much like a
multi-headed X
session.
RELEASE HISTORY
x2x-1.27-2 (current release):
Bugfix and enhancement release. Changes are:
1) Fixed problem in which x2x consumes nearly 100% of the CPU.
This was due to a problem in setting up a call to select(),
which was causing it to be non-blocking.
2) Added some includes and cleaned-up some code to cut down
on compiler warnings.
3) Added a whole new feature! Invoking x2d with a command-line
flag of "-capslockhack"causes it to wrap Shift key Press/
Release events around alpha keystrokes. I discovered I
needed this feature because the "to" display I have uses the
state of CapsLock on its attached keyboard to determine if
CapsLock is on (instead of obeying the CapsLock Press/Release
keyboard events).
x2x-1.27-1:
Initial Release. Vendor code built and package as-is.
KNOWN BUGS
Doesn't "work" very well with the new rootless mode of XWin.
I plan to fix this in a future release.
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link
on the
http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your
system. Save
it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'x2x' from the
'XFree86'
category. You may need to click the "Full" button if it doesn't
show up.
Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't
allowed
due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a
mirror which has this update.
In the US, ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/ is a reliable high
bandwidth
connection.
In Japan, ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/gnu/gnu-win32/ is usually
up-to-date.
In DK, http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/cygwin/ is usually up-to-date.
If one of the above doesn't have the latest version of this package
you can
either wait for the site to be updated or find another mirror.
Please send questions or comments to the Cygwin/XFree86 mailing list
(mailto:cygwin-xfree@;sources.redhat.com). If you want to subscribe
go to
http://cygwin.com/lists.html. I would appreciate it if you would
use the
mailing list rather than emailing me directly. This includes ideas and
comments about the setup utility or Cygwin/XFree86 in general.
If you want to make a point or ask a question, the Cygwin/XFree86
mailing
list is the appropriate place.
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