On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Eliot Moss wrote: > Dear Cygwin/Xwin maintainers: > > First let me say that I am running Cygwin/XFree 6.8.1.0-9 on a Windows XP > box. I start X with the default parameters (plus -clipboard). > > Here's what I want to do, and what happens: > > -- Want to: Use the XP Display Properties > Settings menu to add. on the > fly, a second display, namely a video projector. I "Extend the Windows > Desktop" to this projector for displaying PowerPoint slides. I want X to > stay the way it was, in an XP window that covers the whole laptop LCD > screen, but not displaying on the video projector. > > -- What happens: When I do this, after the display configuration change, > the X window contents no longer display, though the cursors show and > input appears to be active. XP things work as expected, and I can move > the cursor from one screen to another, etc. PowerPoint does the right > thin, showing presenter view on LCD screen anbd slide show on video > projector. Once I am done and change the configuration back to one > display, X works again like normal. > > Any suggestions? Or is this going to need some heavy duty programming to > fix?
Hi, Eliot, You might want to give the "-multiplemonitors"[*] XWin option a try -- I think that's what it was written for. HTH, Igor [*] The XWin man page lists it as "-multimonitors", for some reason, but the patch was submitted for "-multiplemonitors". It should be one or the other... -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT