> "Igor" == Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 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).
>>
>> -- 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?
Igor> You might want to give the "-multiplemonitors"[*] XWin option a
Igor> try -- I think that's what it was written for.
Thanks, Igor ...
I made sure I used that flag (and the spelling you give does match XWin's
--help output for the version I am using).
Same behavior. I include the XWin.log file below; note that the display
starts out 1280x768, so the display changes are to a display of the same
size:
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.1.0-9
Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
XWin was started with the following command line:
/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -clipboard -multiplemonitors
ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1280 h 768
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
(II) XF86Config is not supported
(II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
(==) FontPath set to
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of
shared memory support in the kernel
(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "0409" (0409)
(--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4"
(--) 3 mouse buttons found
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from
list!
winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
winInitClipboard ()
winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned.
winClipboardProc - Hello
DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display.
winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.
winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting.
winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2
winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - orig bpp: 32, last bpp: 32, new bpp: 32
winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 1280 new height: 768
winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the
primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1
winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - orig bpp: 32, last bpp: 32, new bpp: 32
winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 1280 new height: 768
winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the
primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1
winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2
winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - orig bpp: 32, last bpp: 32, new bpp: 32
winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 1280 new height: 768
winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the
primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1
winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the
primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 2
winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the
primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1
winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the
primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 2
winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2
winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2
winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2
winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2
winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the
primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1
winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL -
