I simply could not decide if the jabberwocky is called display or screen. As the tumtum it leans on called $DISPLAY, I wish to set to :0.0 and :0.1 as I had in Reflection/X.
Right, now that I have to the terminology straightened (to roam cygwin wonderland), Reflection/X allows me to start a display server with just screen :0.0 with a premeditated intent of starting screen :0.1 later or not at all. Reflection would give me two XP windows, one for each independent :jabberwocky.screen. Question I should have asked in light of my enlightenment, "How to have more than one screen on an X display server?" Adding to that question, "How to allow willy-nilly starting of another screen later rather than all at once?" It's all the fault of Reflection allowing me the convenience that I wanted the same in Cygwin. This is what my startxwin1.bat have to do to get two screens. I have to repeat options for each screen. If I closed one screen both screens die. Unlike Reflection. Whom should I ask to modify XWin.exe to allow appending screens after the X server has started? =========================================================== ..... run XWin -screen 0 1750 1300 -multiplemonitors -emulate3buttons -scrollbars -clipboard -silent-dup-error -screen 1 1750 1300 -multiplemonitors -emulate3buttons -scrollbars -clipboard -silent-dup-error SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 run wmaker run xterm -sb -e /usr/bin/bash -l SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.1 run wmaker run xterm -sb -e /usr/bin/bash -l -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Phil Betts Sent: Thu, September 01, 2005 12:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: How to have more than one X display? On Thursday, September 01 at 2:09, Soong, SylokeJ wrote: > I had tried both > > SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:1.0 > > SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.1 > > I was guessing to recall which way it could be > to change the display number and had to decide > which to copy and paste into the email. > > Either way gives me the same the same message > and similar logs. I think the problem is the use of "-screen 1". I've never used the -screen option myself, so apologies if I'm way off the mark, but I seem to recall that it was introduced to allow a single X server to use more than one physical display. If this is what you are trying to achieve, you need to start a single X server with both -screen 0 and -screen 1. If you really do want two displays, try dropping the -screen option (or use -screen 0 for both), and use the :1.0 form for the second DISPLAY. HTH Phil -- -- 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/
