On Thu, 27 May 2004, Sean O'Boyle wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running a weird configuration and would like to see if anyone has this > working. > > I have a laptop with a secondary monitor. The primary (laptop screen) is > 1400 x 1050. The secondary monitor is a larger 1600 x 1200. > > I'd like to launch xwin on the secondary monitor such that the root window > fills the screen. Can anyone tell me how to do this? The closest that I > could get was to run in -multimonitor mode - but that filled both of my > screens with a giant root window. > > Currently I'm settling with running XWin on the primary monitor and moving > it to the secondary. So it fills *most* of the screen...
You could temporarilly make the secondary monitor the primary one via the control pannel. Why not just use -multiwindow -multiplemonitors, though? You might also try using "-screen screen_number width height" -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot...