Try putting in the -multiplemonitors option. When I had the same problem last year, the option helped.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas Chadwick Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 7:26 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Can't make XWin on secondary monitor big enough... If you run XWin --help, you get the following: >use: X [:<display>] [option] > >[snip] > >-screen scr_num [width height [x y] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > Enable screen scr_num and optionally specify a width and > height and initial position for that screen. Additionally > a monitor number can be specified to start the server on, > at which point, all coordinates become relative to that > monitor (Not for Windows NT4 and 95). Examples: > -screen 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; 2nd monitor offset 100,100 size 800x600 > -screen 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; 3rd monitor size 1024x768 > -screen 0 @1 ; on 1st monitor using its full resolution (the default) BTW - I didn't say so in my OP, but I also tried "XWin -screen 0 @1", which is suggested above, and that only got me a 1024x768 windowed XWin on the secondary monitor. -Tom -- 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/
