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Re: Multimonitor screen
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:30:12 -0500
- Subject: Re: Multimonitor screen
- References: <3E83311B.4040403@lsces.co.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
You answered your own question in the subject of your message.
You can use the -multimonitor command-line parameter for XWin.exe to
create a window that spans multiple monitors.
However, this flag does not yet work in conjunction with the
-multiwindow command-line parameter... though it would probably be
trivial to make it work.
Are you using the -multiwindow command-line parameter?
Harold
Lester Caine wrote:
I have a windows setup running across two 1280 x 1024 monitors.
More by luck than design I can create a large desktop with xwin, and can
drag it to use it over the two monitors.
I have also successfully got kde2 running from startx and it is working
nicely, again dragged onto either monitor.
Now the problem - how do I either get xwin to build a window bigger than
a single screen, or get it to position it on the second monitor at
startup. The idea is to have multiple montors each with a different
'xserver' screen. I have machines with 8 displays running with scrolling
information and am trying to move them to Linux via the back door, for
which cygwin may provide a half way house.
I'm sure that some simple pointers will advance by understanding of who
this bit hangs together <g>