Re: Cygwin/Xfree on second (low res) monitor
In the abscense of anyone shouting 'nooo - you fool!' I commented out lines 244, 245 of wincreatewnd.c and recompiled. I was shocked and surprised to find that the hack worked. I'm now going to familiarise myself with the code a bit more before suggesting how this feature could be implemented better. Any hints on why the lines are there in the first place would still be appreciated. cheers Saul Saul Cozens wrote: Hi, I've been playing with Cygwin/XFree86 for a few day now - and frankly I'm astounded - it's great! However, I have one little query that I hope someone can help me with! I have a dualhead video card in my Win2K box with monitor-1 set to 1280x1024 and monitor-2 (an LCD screen) set to 1024x768. I wish to have my Win2K desktop on monitor-1 and the KDE desktop (started via XDMCP) of my Debian/Linux box on monitor-2. With CygwinXfree86 I could then move between the environments so quickly and easily that my head would spin! Now I thought that I would be able to achieve this by doing xwin -screen 0 1024 768 -query linuxhost -nodecoration -clipboard and moving the resultant window to monitor-2, but xwin seems to ignore the screen resolution when '-nodecoration' is set. This was confirmed when I looked at the source code wincreatewnd.c 229-233 /* * User gave a width and height but also said no decoration. * In this case we have to ignore the requested width and height * and instead use the largest possible window that we can. */ The same seems to be true for -rootless and (obviously) -fullscreen, And as -multiplemonitors is intended to allow the Xwindow to occupy BOTH monitors I'm stuck! So can anyone tell me why (before I try osmething stupid like simply removing this override and recompiling) or simply tell me another way to achieve my dual desktop dreams! many thanks Saul Cozens
Re: Cygwin/Xfree on second (low res) monitor
Unfortunately anoncvs.xfree86.org is unreachable at the moment, so I got an original copy of wincreatewnd.c and did a manual diff: $ diff wincreatewnd.c wincreatewnd.c.orig 255,256c255,256 //iWidth = GetSystemMetrics (SM_CXSCREEN); //iHeight = GetSystemMetrics (SM_CYSCREEN); --- iWidth = GetSystemMetrics (SM_CXSCREEN); iHeight = GetSystemMetrics (SM_CYSCREEN); as you said- I got the line numbers wrong - I've must've been tinkering elsewhere. Anyway, I can start this up with: XWin.exe -query linuxbox -screen 0 1024 768 -rootless -lesspointer -clipboard and I do get a 1024x768 borderless window (on my 1280x1024 monitor-1) , which I can then move to monitor-2 using the Matrox PowerDesk hotkey for 'swap Active Window'. I'm now seeing if I can add an [-offset left top] command line option to save me that hotkey press! any guidance appreciated, Saul Harold L Hunt II wrote: Saul, Saul Cozens wrote: In the abscense of anyone shouting 'nooo - you fool!' I commented out lines 244, 245 of wincreatewnd.c and recompiled. I like people compiling the source themselves and fixing their own problems. Thanks for this :) However, it would be useful if you sent in a diff so that we knew sort of what you were talking about and could maybe offer some tips. I guess you got the code from CVS, in which case you could: cd programs/Xserver/hw/xwin cvs -z3 diff -u wincreatewnd.c wincreatewnd.c.diff If you got it from the src packages via setup.exe, then you would have to untar the original source and do something like the following: cd /usr/src diff xc-orig/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/wincreatewnd.c \ xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/wincreatewnd.c \ wincreatewnd.c.diff I was shocked and surprised to find that the hack worked. I'm now going to familiarise myself with the code a bit more before suggesting how this feature could be implemented better. Any hints on why the lines are there in the first place would still be appreciated. I'm not sure why it works since I don't know what you changed. :) I looked and saw comments at 244 and 245. Harold
Cygwin/Xfree on second (low res) monitor
Hi, I've been playing with Cygwin/XFree86 for a few day now - and frankly I'm astounded - it's great! However, I have one little query that I hope someone can help me with! I have a dualhead video card in my Win2K box with monitor-1 set to 1280x1024 and monitor-2 (an LCD screen) set to 1024x768. I wish to have my Win2K desktop on monitor-1 and the KDE desktop (started via XDMCP) of my Debian/Linux box on monitor-2. With CygwinXfree86 I could then move between the environments so quickly and easily that my head would spin! Now I thought that I would be able to achieve this by doing xwin -screen 0 1024 768 -query linuxhost -nodecoration -clipboard and moving the resultant window to monitor-2, but xwin seems to ignore the screen resolution when '-nodecoration' is set. This was confirmed when I looked at the source code wincreatewnd.c 229-233 /* * User gave a width and height but also said no decoration. * In this case we have to ignore the requested width and height * and instead use the largest possible window that we can. */ The same seems to be true for -rootless and (obviously) -fullscreen, And as -multiplemonitors is intended to allow the Xwindow to occupy BOTH monitors I'm stuck! So can anyone tell me why (before I try osmething stupid like simply removing this override and recompiling) or simply tell me another way to achieve my dual desktop dreams! many thanks Saul Cozens
