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Re: nomultiplemonitors does not work in windowed mode
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: hufilufi at freemail dot hu
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:03:38 +0100
- Subject: Re: nomultiplemonitors does not work in windowed mode
- References: <freemail.20110630141640.56574.2@xmldata05.freemail.hu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
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On 30/06/2011 13:16, szalai endre wrote:
> Guys, I am going crazy. I have 2 monitors and I would like Cygwin-X to use only the primary. So I am using the nomultiplemonitors option like this:
> xwin.exe -nomultiplemonitors
>
> But. Cygwin has the following modes:
> (default) Windowed or rooted mode.
> This is not an option, I want to use the multiwindow mode. Otherwise I could just use VNC, using Cygwin-X for this is pointless (for me).
>
> -multiwindow
> This mode automatically sets the multiplemonitors option and it cannot be overriden from command line.
What is it that makes you think this?
For the current version of Cygwin/X this is not the case. However, perhaps it
should be, as it doesn't work in a useful way. You can move the X windows off
the primary monitor, but they don't get their contents drawn when you do so
(because the underlying X screen is only the size of the primary monitor)
I'm not sure if I understand what you are expecting to happen with
-multiwindow -nomultiplemonitors: Should the X windows be forced to stay on
the primary monitor when you try to move them off it? It might also help to
describe your use case in a bit more detail.
> -rootless
> Unusable, since I can't move to resize the windows.
You will need to run an X window manager to move, resize etc. the X windows in
this mode, as described at [1]
> -mwextwm
> This one gets frozen, so it's not really an option right now.
As bug reports go, this leaves something to be desired :-)
> Do I see correctly, that the only mode that would be usable for me (multiwindow) cannot be used with the option -nomultiplemonitors?
>
> Please advice.
[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/configure.html#configure-cygwin-x-windowing-modes
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