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 -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/