changes in monitor resolution

[Roger Levy <rlevy at inf dot ed dot ac dot uk>]

Hi,

I use Cygwin/X on my laptop all the time, and I often switch back and 
forth between my XGA laptop display and an SXGA external monitor.  (I 
use startxwin.bat to start the X server.)  What I find is that when I 
start xwin while my laptop display is active, and then switch to the 
external monitor, nothing displaying through X is visible on the bottom 
and right-hand sides of the display.  I assume that this is because 
startxwin.bat detected my monitor resolution as XGA and so configured 
its resolution as 1024x768, and doesn't automatically resize when I 
switch displays.  I can fix this by closing the X server and then 
restarting it, but then I have to close all my X clients too.

Is there a way to either (a) automatically start X with SXGA resolution, 
or (b) manually resize X after I switch monitors, without restarting it?

Many thanks,

Roger Levy


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