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Re: XWin on Larger Secondary Monitor?
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 17:30:25 -0500
- Subject: Re: XWin on Larger Secondary Monitor?
- References: <200405272003.i4RK3XCh016587@mail836.megamailservers.com>
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- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Sean O'Boyle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running a weird configuration and would like to see if anyone has this
> working.
>
> I have a laptop with a secondary monitor. The primary (laptop screen) is
> 1400 x 1050. The secondary monitor is a larger 1600 x 1200.
>
> I'd like to launch xwin on the secondary monitor such that the root window
> fills the screen. Can anyone tell me how to do this? The closest that I
> could get was to run in -multimonitor mode - but that filled both of my
> screens with a giant root window.
>
> Currently I'm settling with running XWin on the primary monitor and moving
> it to the secondary. So it fills *most* of the screen...
You could temporarilly make the secondary monitor the primary one via the
control pannel. Why not just use -multiwindow -multiplemonitors, though?
You might also try using "-screen screen_number width height"
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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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