Coincidentally, I had cygwin/X connecting with our solaris server and I was playing around with the resolution of second diplay attached to my XP laptop, just before I read this email.
I was running statistical and graphical software on solaris thrown to my cygwin wmaker display. My cygwin/X session went blank and unresponsive. No X windows were shown but the usual latent images sticking to any hung up XP window. I had to kill the window using XP task manager. Whenever I use Reflection/X and I happened to play around with my the resolution of my laptop, despite Reflection/X warning "reset X server ... or else ... ", the X display would still continue to function without any noticeable defect or degradation without a reset. If circumstances had me believe in Santa, though I never will, this issue would be on my wish list to be sent to the North Pole. [Dear Santa, I would like to have cygwin/x frost-free whenever I play around with resolution of my laptop.] -----Original Message----- Is cygwin/X somehow able to handle screen resolution changes? Currently I start X with the startxwin.bat file that comes in the package. I end up changing screen resolution depending on whether I am connected to a monitor or looking at the laptop LCD. Everytime my xterms start behaving oddly (e.g., with a white band in the right side, etc.) So can I make it work smoothly in this scenario with some flags, etc. If not is this on the list of things to do. Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/