Hi,
I've been playing with Cygwin/XFree86 for a few day now - and frankly
I'm astounded - it's great! However, I have one little query that I
hope someone can help me with!
I have a dualhead video card in my Win2K box with monitor-1 set to
1280x1024 and monitor-2 (an LCD screen) set to 1024x768. I wish to have
my Win2K desktop on monitor-1 and the KDE desktop (started via XDMCP) of
my Debian/Linux box on monitor-2. With CygwinXfree86 I could then move
between the environments so quickly and easily that my head would spin!
Now I thought that I would be able to achieve this by doing
xwin -screen 0 1024 768 -query linuxhost -nodecoration -clipboard
and moving the resultant window to monitor-2, but xwin seems to ignore
the screen resolution when '-nodecoration' is set. This was confirmed
when I looked at the source code
wincreatewnd.c 229-233
/*
* User gave a width and height but also said no decoration.
* In this case we have to ignore the requested width and height
* and instead use the largest possible window that we can.
*/
The same seems to be true for -rootless and (obviously) -fullscreen,
And as -multiplemonitors is intended to allow the Xwindow to occupy BOTH
monitors I'm stuck!
So can anyone tell me why (before I try osmething stupid like simply
removing this override and recompiling) or simply tell me another way to
achieve my dual desktop dreams!
many thanks
Saul Cozens
- Re: Cygwin/Xfree on second (low res) monitor Saul Cozens
- Re: Cygwin/Xfree on second (low res) monitor Saul Cozens
- Re: Cygwin/Xfree on second (low res) monitor Harold L Hunt II
- Re: Cygwin/Xfree on second (low res) monitor Saul Cozens
- Re: Cygwin/Xfree on second (low res) mon... Harold L Hunt II