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Re: Disruptive screen resolution change when using remote desktop


Was there any reply to this mail?
I too face this issue and am eager to know the solution...

On 5/18/07, Burvil <bowei_99@yahoo.com> wrote:
So, does anyone have any thoughts on this post from a
couple days ago?

--- Burvil <bowei_99@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have my Cygwin/X set up with a root window running
> the fluxbox window manager on my desktop.  It works
> quite well if I'm logged in to the system itself,
> i.e.
> I'm physically at the computer.
>
> However, if I login to my system via remote desktop,
> as I often need to do, the screen resolution is
> usually lower than that of the desktop, and so I get
> the following eror message:
>
> Disruptive screen resolution change
> Restore previous resolution to use Cygwin/X
>
> Clicking on 'Dismiss' does nothing - it apparently
> tries to correct itself, but fails, and the error
> message persists until I kill the X server.
>
> I looked at the following messages, after which I
> tried changing startxwin.bat to enable scrollbars
> and
> making sure color depth was the same on the OS of
> the
> remote and local systems as well as in cygwin/X
> itself.
>
>
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00508.html
>
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00480.html
>
> I also tried setting the root window resolution to
> 1024x768, which is a lot more common than the
> 1680x1050 on my desktop.  Even when the screen
> resolution of the remote system, i.e. where the
> system
> I'm using remote desktop on, is, say, 1152x864, I
> still get the same error message.
>
> Is there a way to get around this other than getting
> a
> monitor that's the same resolution as my desktop?
>
>
>
>
>
>
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