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Re: changes in monitor resolution
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 12:04:49 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: changes in monitor resolution
- References: <4369EE5A.8040203@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Roger Levy wrote:
> 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?
(a) is possible -- you can pass screen size parameters to X. For (b), see
if -multiplemonitors does the right thing; if not, you're out of luck.
Igor
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