May I say in its defence (after a bit more experimenting) that when comparing Cygwin-X/gtk-x11 against gtk-win32, X's text handling is noticeably superior at high resolutions (at least, on my system). With my monitor set to 1600x1200, Cygwin-X's text is still crisp and clear - whereas gtk-win32's looks decidedly fuzzy.
Anyway, I wanted to try working in 'rooted' mode to see if this would improve the flickering that I reported yesterday. Normally I start X just by running the batch file startxwin.bat. Looking in that file I can see that the command to start X is:- %RUN% XWin -multiwindow -multiplemonitors -clipboard -silent-dup-error Perhaps naively I figure that if I changed it to this:- %RUN% XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error I'd get a single monitor in the 'rooted' mode that John referred to yesterday (i.e. able to use DirectDraw). However, there seems to be more to it than that. The above line causes xserver to run in a very flickery window, as if something isn't set up properly. What do I need to do to see the DirectDraw feature in action? John -- 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/