On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Ian MacKinnon wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using XP on a laptop and am also using an external monitor.
> I have my laptop as display 1, and the external monitor as display 2
> All using XP's built in mulitple monitor support.
>
> Now the problem...
> When I start X using startxwin.sh (or any other method), the clients all
> start on display 2, and if I drag them back to display 1, all their content
> disappears, ie the terminal window blanks out.
> If I drag them back to monitor 2, the content reapears along with any
> commands that have been entered
>
> This is with the latest 1.5 updated this morning, but has never worked for
> me
>
> Any suggestions ?
> I have tried different combinations of manually setting DISPLAY eg :0, :0.1
> :1 etc
I seem to recall that there is a -multiplemonitors option. Try passing it
to XWin.exe in your startxwin.sh and see if it works.
Igor
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