On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:37 PM, J. Bruce Dean <[email protected]> wrote: > When running dual displays, using cygwin/x, the external monitor frames are > 'invisible'. > The window moves from the (laptop) display, working, on the external monitor > they > have a border, but the background is a snapshot of the app running on the > external > monitor. If I type, it works, but nothing displays. Moving the window moves > the > snapshot of the background. Moving back to the primary display I can see > whatever > I typed on the external monitor. Searching provided some things to try, such > as the > 'screens' and 'mulitplemonitors', neither worked.
One important thing is to make sure the X server is started while the second monitor is active. I know that if I start XWin in single-monitor mode, then attach the second monitor, the X server needs to be restarted. Hope that helps, -Jeff -- Jeff Spirko [email protected] [email protected] WD3V |=> The study of non-linear physics is like the study of non-elephant biology. -- 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/
