On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Roger Levy wrote: > Hi, > > I use Cygwin/X on my laptop all the time, and I often switch back and forth > between my XGA laptop display and an SXGA external monitor. (I use > startxwin.bat to start the X server.) What I find is that when I start xwin > while my laptop display is active, and then switch to the external monitor, > nothing displaying through X is visible on the bottom and right-hand sides of > the display. I assume that this is because startxwin.bat detected my monitor > resolution as XGA and so configured its resolution as 1024x768, and doesn't > automatically resize when I switch displays. I can fix this by closing the X > server and then restarting it, but then I have to close all my X clients too. > > Is there a way to either (a) automatically start X with SXGA resolution, or > (b) manually resize X after I switch monitors, without restarting it?
(a) is possible -- you can pass screen size parameters to X. For (b), see if -multiplemonitors does the right thing; if not, you're out of luck. Igor -- 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! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/