RE: cygwin windows are white in 2nd monitor
From: Igor Peshansky pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:52:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: cygwin windows are white in 2nd monitor References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Jeff.Blosser wrote: I upgraded to XP SP2, yes I was behind. After patching, all windows that are controlled by cygwin, local xterm, remote display's sent to this computer, are all white. The windows work fine in the primary screen (screen 1). I start cygwin with c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat. I have not modified this script from the default install so XWin starts with XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error. After patching XP, I thought that I might need to reinstall cygwin, so I reinstalled all components of cygwin I was using with setup.exe. I am not sure what version of Cygwin, but hopefully it is up to date since I used setup.exe to install. When I run uname -a I get CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.20_0.156/4/2. Thanks. Try giving the -multiplemonitors option to XWin. Igor P.S. You shouldn't need to reinstall Cygwin after patching XP. --- I tried with -multiplemonitors and still have the same results. Here is the Xwin start command: --- %RUN% XWin -multiplemonitors -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error --- I have also attached Xwin.log. The other thing I have noticed is that /tmp is mounted from --- A diferent place. Before upgrading XP /tmp was just a directory under c:\cygwin now it mounts the dirctory below. I --- have no idea if this is related. Thanks. --- --- --- Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on --- C:\DOCUME~1\Jeff\LOCALS~1\Temp --- 35509288 29961668 5547620 85% /tmp -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte. But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that! -- Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac -- 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/ XWin.log Description: XWin.log -- 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/
RE: cygwin windows are white in 2nd monitor
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jeff.Blosser wrote: From: Igor Peshansky pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:52:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: cygwin windows are white in 2nd monitor References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Jeff.Blosser wrote: I upgraded to XP SP2, yes I was behind. After patching, all windows that are controlled by cygwin, local xterm, remote display's sent to this computer, are all white. The windows work fine in the primary screen (screen 1). I start cygwin with c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat. I have not modified this script from the default install so XWin starts with XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error. After patching XP, I thought that I might need to reinstall cygwin, so I reinstalled all components of cygwin I was using with setup.exe. I am not sure what version of Cygwin, but hopefully it is up to date since I used setup.exe to install. When I run uname -a I get CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.20_0.156/4/2. Thanks. Try giving the -multiplemonitors option to XWin. Igor P.S. You shouldn't need to reinstall Cygwin after patching XP. I tried with -multiplemonitors and still have the same results. Here is the Xwin start command: %RUN% XWin -multiplemonitors -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error I have also attached Xwin.log. And it clearly shows your problem: winScreenInit - Monitors do not all have same pixel format / display depth. Using primary display only. Fix the above, and it should work. The other thing I have noticed is that /tmp is mounted from A diferent place. Before upgrading XP /tmp was just a directory under c:\cygwin now it mounts the dirctory below. I have no idea if this is related. Thanks. Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on C:\DOCUME~1\Jeff\LOCALS~1\Temp 35509288 29961668 5547620 85% /tmp That's normal. Most Cygwin directories can be mounted from anywhere without much problem (the exceptions are system directories like /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /etc, and so on). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte. But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that! -- Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac -- 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/
RE: cygwin windows are white in 2nd monitor
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jeff.Blosser wrote: From: Igor Peshansky pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:52:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: cygwin windows are white in 2nd monitor References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] om Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Jeff.Blosser wrote: I upgraded to XP SP2, yes I was behind. After patching, all windows that are controlled by cygwin, local xterm, remote display's sent to this computer, are all white. The windows work fine in the primary screen (screen 1). I start cygwin with c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat. I have not modified this script from the default install so XWin starts with XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error. After patching XP, I thought that I might need to reinstall cygwin, so I reinstalled all components of cygwin I was using with setup.exe. I am not sure what version of Cygwin, but hopefully it is up to date since I used setup.exe to install. When I run uname -a I get CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.20_0.156/4/2. Thanks. Try giving the -multiplemonitors option to XWin. Igor P.S. You shouldn't need to reinstall Cygwin after patching XP. I tried with -multiplemonitors and still have the same results. Here is the Xwin start command: %RUN% XWin -multiplemonitors -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error I have also attached Xwin.log. And it clearly shows your problem: winScreenInit - Monitors do not all have same pixel format / display depth. Using primary display only. Fix the above, and it should work. I changed both monitors to be 1024x768 on Display Settings. The 1st monitor has always been 1024x768 and I changed the 2nd monitor from 1280x1024 to 1024x768. This did not help. Before I patched to SP2 they were at 1024x768 and 1280x768. Both monitors are Highest (32 bit for Color quality and they are both ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, IBM T41 laptop. I still see the error message in above in Xwin.log. I don't see any other settings on Display Properties. So SP2 must of changed something. The other thing I have noticed is that /tmp is mounted from A diferent place. Before upgrading XP /tmp was just a directory under c:\cygwin now it mounts the dirctory below. I have no idea if this is related. Thanks. Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on C:\DOCUME~1\Jeff\LOCALS~1\Temp 35509288 29961668 5547620 85% /tmp That's normal. Most Cygwin directories can be mounted from anywhere without much problem (the exceptions are system directories like /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /etc, and so on). I don't want this mounted. Do you know where I can comment this out? I don't see it in startxwin.bat. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte. But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that! -- Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac -- 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/
RE: cygwin windows are white in 2nd monitor
Here is the fix: http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com/msg15817.html In summary: The problem was I had NetMeeting Desktop sharing running on the machine. Stop netmeeting desktop sharing, problem went away. :-) ...Lyall -Original Message- From: Blosser, Jeff Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:48 AM To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com' Subject: RE: cygwin windows are white in 2nd monitor On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jeff.Blosser wrote: From: Igor Peshansky pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:52:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: cygwin windows are white in 2nd monitor References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] om Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Jeff.Blosser wrote: I upgraded to XP SP2, yes I was behind. After patching, all windows that are controlled by cygwin, local xterm, remote display's sent to this computer, are all white. The windows work fine in the primary screen (screen 1). I start cygwin with c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat. I have not modified this script from the default install so XWin starts with XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error. After patching XP, I thought that I might need to reinstall cygwin, so I reinstalled all components of cygwin I was using with setup.exe. I am not sure what version of Cygwin, but hopefully it is up to date since I used setup.exe to install. When I run uname -a I get CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.20_0.156/4/2. Thanks. Try giving the -multiplemonitors option to XWin. Igor P.S. You shouldn't need to reinstall Cygwin after patching XP. I tried with -multiplemonitors and still have the same results. Here is the Xwin start command: %RUN% XWin -multiplemonitors -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error I have also attached Xwin.log. And it clearly shows your problem: winScreenInit - Monitors do not all have same pixel format / display depth. Using primary display only. Fix the above, and it should work. I changed both monitors to be 1024x768 on Display Settings. The 1st monitor has always been 1024x768 and I changed the 2nd monitor from 1280x1024 to 1024x768. This did not help. Before I patched to SP2 they were at 1024x768 and 1280x768. Both monitors are Highest (32 bit for Color quality and they are both ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, IBM T41 laptop. I still see the error message in above in Xwin.log. I don't see any other settings on Display Properties. So SP2 must of changed something. The other thing I have noticed is that /tmp is mounted from A diferent place. Before upgrading XP /tmp was just a directory under c:\cygwin now it mounts the dirctory below. I have no idea if this is related. Thanks. Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on C:\DOCUME~1\Jeff\LOCALS~1\Temp 35509288 29961668 5547620 85% /tmp That's normal. Most Cygwin directories can be mounted from anywhere without much problem (the exceptions are system directories like /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /etc, and so on). I don't want this mounted. Do you know where I can comment this out? I don't see it in startxwin.bat. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte. But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that! -- Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac -- 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/
Re: cygwin windows are white in 2nd monitor
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Jeff.Blosser wrote: I upgraded to XP SP2, yes I was behind. After patching, all windows that are controlled by cygwin, local xterm, remote display's sent to this computer, are all white. The windows work fine in the primary screen (screen 1). I start cygwin with c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat. I have not modified this script from the default install so XWin starts with XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error. After patching XP, I thought that I might need to reinstall cygwin, so I reinstalled all components of cygwin I was using with setup.exe. I am not sure what version of Cygwin, but hopefully it is up to date since I used setup.exe to install. When I run uname -a I get CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.20_0.156/4/2. Thanks. Try giving the -multiplemonitors option to XWin. Igor P.S. You shouldn't need to reinstall Cygwin after patching XP. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte. But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that! -- Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac -- 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/
