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Re: changes in monitor resolution
- From: Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:11:50 +0000
- Subject: Re: changes in monitor resolution
- References: <4369EE5A.8040203@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:02 +0000, 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?
There isn't a current way to do it. Although I've got plans to make XWin
understand the RandR extension which is the rotate & resize facility.
This way we can get an event of when the screen size changes and update
the Xserver to handle the new size.
Alan.
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