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RE: cygwin windows are white in 2nd monitor


 Here is the fix:
http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com/msg15817.html
In summary:

The problem was I had NetMeeting Desktop sharing running on the machine.

Stop netmeeting desktop sharing, problem went away.

:-)

...Lyall

-----Original Message-----
From: Blosser, Jeff 
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:48 AM
To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
Subject: RE: cygwin windows are white in 2nd monitor

 

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jeff.Blosser wrote:

> > From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
> > To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> > Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:52:19 -0400 (EDT)
> > Subject: Re: cygwin windows are white in 2nd monitor
> > References:
> > <D6D641E6B5A2784E9253AC09C75B3F020224DED0@msgswbiadsm04.wellsfargo.c
> > om>
> > Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> > Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----
> >
> > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Jeff.Blosser wrote:
> >
> > > I upgraded to XP SP2, yes I was behind. After patching, all 
> > > windows that are controlled by cygwin, local xterm, remote 
> > > display's sent to this computer, are all white. The windows work 
> > > fine in the primary screen (screen 1). I start cygwin with 
> > > c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat.  I have not modified this 
> > > script from the default install so XWin starts with "XWin 
> > > -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error".
> > >
> > > After patching XP, I thought that I might need to reinstall 
> > > cygwin, so I reinstalled all components of cygwin I was using with

> > > setup.exe. I am not sure what version of Cygwin, but hopefully it 
> > > is up to date since I used setup.exe to install. When I run uname 
> > > -a I get CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.20_0.156/4/2. Thanks.
> >
> > Try giving the -multiplemonitors option to XWin.
> > 	Igor
> > P.S. You shouldn't need to reinstall Cygwin after patching XP.
>
> I tried with -multiplemonitors and still have the same results. Here 
> is the Xwin start command:
> %RUN% XWin -multiplemonitors -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error

> I have also attached Xwin.log.

And it clearly shows your problem:

> winScreenInit - Monitors do not all have same pixel format / display
depth.
> Using primary display only.

Fix the above, and it should work.

----I changed both monitors to be 1024x768 on Display Settings. The 1st
monitor has always been 1024x768 and I changed the 2nd monitor from
1280x1024 to 1024x768. This did not help. Before I patched to SP2 they
were at 1024x768 and 1280x768. Both monitors are "Highest (32 bit" for
Color quality and they are both "ATI Mobility Radeon 7500", IBM T41
laptop. I still see the error message in above in Xwin.log. I don't see
any other settings on Display Properties. So SP2 must of changed
something.....

> The other thing I have noticed is that /tmp is mounted from A diferent

> place. Before upgrading XP /tmp was just a directory under c:\cygwin 
> now it mounts the dirctory below. I have no idea if this is related.
Thanks.
>
> Filesystem          1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> C:\DOCUME~1\Jeff\LOCALS~1\Temp
>                      35509288  29961668   5547620  85% /tmp

That's normal.  Most Cygwin directories can be mounted from anywhere
without much problem (the exceptions are system directories like
/usr/bin, /usr/lib, /etc, and so on).

---- I don't want this mounted. Do you know where I can comment this
out? I don't see it in startxwin.bat.
	Igor
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