Re: Problems with display resize over RDP connections

2010-04-28 Thread Raul Acevedo
Didn't X figure out how to dynamically change its display resolution long time ago? (I remember the "good old days" when this really was fixed on server start up, and the only way to change it was to restart X.) Isn't there some way to tell the X server, even if it's via a command line utility

Re: Problems with display resize over RDP connections

2010-04-28 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
My understanding is that the X server inherits the properties of the screen it's started on. For example, if you normally have 2 monitors, and for some reason only 1 monitor is active, and you start Xwin there, if you then active the 2nd monitor, you can't move your Xterm window over there (or

Problems with display resize over RDP connections

2010-04-28 Thread Raul Acevedo
At work, my display is at 1280x1024. When I RDP from home, I have a bigger screen so my work computer's desktop is resized to 1920x1200. When this happens, X applications cannot display anything below 1024 pixels; below 1024 pixels nothing is displayed, and you can see the other application windo

Re: Updated: xorg-server-1.8.0-1 (TEST)

2010-04-28 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 28 April 2010 09:34, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 28/04/2010 00:57, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: >> >> It has been over three weeks.  What is the status of this release? > > There's been no feedback, good or bad.  This probably means no-one has tried > it :-) Actually there was feedback: http://cygwin.co

Re: Updated: xorg-server-1.8.0-1 (TEST)

2010-04-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 28/04/2010 00:57, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: It has been over three weeks. What is the status of this release? There's been no feedback, good or bad. This probably means no-one has tried it :-) Anyhow, thanks for the reminder, and since no major regressions have been reported, I've promot