Re: Configuration for multiple monitors

2004-01-10 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Ãyvind, Jack Tanner had some valid points for keeping -nomultiplemonitors. The reason we won't just remove the -multiplemonitors option is a little easier: 1) XWin.exe does not print nor popup error messages when it exists; rather, it logs them to /tmp/XWin.log. 2) Removing the -multiplemonit

Re: Configuration for multiple monitors

2004-01-10 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jack, Jack Tanner wrote: Ãyvind Harboe wrote: perhaps the below should *always* be TRUE and there shouldn't be an option at all? No, I'd like -nomultiplemonitors to exist. I have two monitors, but the second is usually turned off. Various X client dialog boxes and application windows usually

Re: Configuration for multiple monitors

2004-01-09 Thread Jack Tanner
Ãyvind Harboe wrote: perhaps the below should *always* be TRUE and there shouldn't be an option at all? No, I'd like -nomultiplemonitors to exist. I have two monitors, but the second is usually turned off. Various X client dialog boxes and application windows usually come up in the center of my

Re: Configuration for multiple monitors

2004-01-09 Thread Øyvind Harboe
Harold, perhaps the below should *always* be TRUE and there shouldn't be an option at all? g_ScreenInfo[i].fMultipleMonitors = TRUE; If so, then the changes TBD are: - remove the -multiplemontiors option - always set fMultipleMonitors=TRUE, or remove fMultipleMontiors altogether. (Code remove

Re: Configuration for multiple monitors

2004-01-08 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Ãyvind, Give a man a fish, he eats for one day. Teach a man to fish... Source is viewable here: http://pdx.freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/?cvsroot=xorg&only_with_tag=CYGWIN Do the following: 1) Look at winprocarg.c/winInitializeDefaultScreens 2) Change the li

Configuration for multiple monitors

2004-01-08 Thread Øyvind Harboe
A good configuration option is no configuration option :-) Is there any reason not to make -multiplemonitors default for XWin? With the default setting, the default behaviour when extending the desktop to two monitors is broken. This is a known problem. A machine with a single monitor behaves co