Hi Surnder, Make sure that both monitors have the same color depth. A couple of years ago you even needed to have the same resolution on the monitors but that was fixed. Check you color depth.
Geordy On 7/11/07, Surinder Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Geordy: I tried what you said and it still does not change anything. In additon, i tried the -multiplemonitors options too, without success. I don't know how to solve this. Surnder On 7/11/07, Geordy Korte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Try restarting the X server. If you start the X server and after that > you switch on the secondi screen in windows then you will get these > white screens. Samething happens if you resize your screen. Should > that not help then here is my X server startup: > > %RUN% XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error > > Cheers, > > Geordy > > On 7/10/07, Surinder Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My setup has multiple monitors (or dual monitors). Since I may not be > > using the correct term for that, let me just describe that to remove > > any ambuguity. I have the laptop display and then a monitor > > connected. I can drag windows from one to the other display *as if* > > the two monitors were connected physically (they are not). So I have > > one computer (my laptop) and two displays. > > > > what I notice is that when I open startx, the window displays well on > > the screen of the laptop, but not on the extra monitor. When I drag > > it there, it becomes white and nothing is visible inside the window. > > > > I searched the archives and googled and googled. Best I got was an > > advice to add "-multiplemonitors" the list of options for X to start. > > I did that, and it does not help. What should I be doing? (I am > > using the latest cygwin). > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > 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/ > > > > > > > -- > ============== > Geordy Korte > ICQ 14458242 > MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
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