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Re: starting X on an alternate monitor
- From: Eric Gumtow <ejgumtow at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:24:20 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: starting X on an alternate monitor
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> Have you tried it with @1 instead of @2?
Yes. The same behavior. X starts on monitor #1.
--- Brian Keener <keenerb@roleplayga.org> wrote:
> Eric Gumtow wrote:
>
> >I'm trying to start X with the root on monitor #2. This is my
> >command line:
> >
> >X -fullscreen -ac -emulate3buttons -clipboard -multiplemonitors
> >-screen 0 @2 &
> >
> >What happens is X starts on monitor #1.
> >
> >I've read through the FAQ and X's help page. Based on what I've
> >found from those sources it ought to work.
> >
> >I'm on XP. XP has no problems with monitor #2.
> >
> >Here's my uname -a:
> >
> >CYGWIN_NT-5.1 EGUMTOW-LXP 1.5.18(0.132/4/2) 2005-07-02 20:30 i686
> >unknown unknown Cygwin
> >
> >What am I missing? Thanks.
> >
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> Have you tried it with @1 instead of @2?
>
> Brian K
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