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Re: change resolution?


Hemal Pandya skrev:
> Hello,
>
> I use cygwin-xfree on a laptop; either using the laptop's display or
> by docking it and using an external display.
>
> When the X server is started while usign the laptop's display, after
> switching to the external monitor the X server does not use the entire
> display area. For example, if I maximize the XEmacs window some area
> in bottom remains unpainted.
>
> Is there a way to get X to use the entire area in this case?
>
You can try changing the XWin line in XWIN.bat to something like the end of this line

run XWin -xkbvariant nodeadkeys -multiwindow -clipboard  -emulate3buttons 50 \
-screen 0 1280 1024 &

Then you should always get max size. Warning you may lose a window

Good luck

-- 
Bengt-Arne Fjellner




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