my 3 heads = apps in the dead zone

2005-11-17 Thread Carl Karsten
I am running cygwin/x on a 3 head win box: 21 is main, 2 17's are stacked to the right. so the 3 look like these dots .: or like this [17] [21][17] When I start an app, it creates its window in the dead zone where there is no monitor - like this: app[17] [21][17] I can tell that's

Re: my 3 heads = apps in the dead zone

2005-11-17 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:51:12AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is this a problem with the app, cygwin/x, x.org, Win or my config? Ultimately, window placement is the responsibility of the window manager. However, most window managers assume a single rectangular desktop area. Hmph,

Re: my 3 heads = apps in the dead zone

2005-11-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Chris Green wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:51:12AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is this a problem with the app, cygwin/x, x.org, Win or my config? Ultimately, window placement is the responsibility of the window manager. However, most window managers assume

A fix for the disappearing cursor bug

2005-11-17 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, At the risk of crying wolf again, I think this patch fixes the disappearing hardware cursor bug, and leaves the software cursor code unmolested! --- ./programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/save_wincursor.c 2005-11-15 12:14:18.0 + +++ ./programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/wincursor.c 2005-11-15

Re: It this the disappearing cursor bug?

2005-11-17 Thread Joseph Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Colin, I have seen some code in MPlayer that uses a while loop to continue to call ShowCursor() until the cursor is either shown or hidden as needed. It is possible to call ShowCursor(FALSE) twice so that a single ShowCursor(TRUE) will not work.

Re: It this the disappearing cursor bug?

2005-11-17 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, Joseph Miller wrote:- I have seen some code in MPlayer that uses a while loop to continue to call ShowCursor() until the cursor is either shown or hidden as needed. I haven't tried this one yet:- instead of ShowCursor(TRUE) use while (ShowCursor(TRUE) 0) instead of

CygwinX

2005-11-17 Thread hate me
Hi there, from the last two days I have been traying to do download X-cygwin/X and I have been unsucefully. opened the X terminal and it says: A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information. Vendor: The cygwin/project Release: 6.8.2.0-4

RE: CygwinX

2005-11-17 Thread Soong, SylokeJ
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-x-ug.html Chapter 4! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of hate me Sent: Thu, November 17, 2005 6:23 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: CygwinX Hi there, from the last two days I have been traying to do

Re: CygwinX

2005-11-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
hate me wrote: Hi there, from the last two days I have been traying to do download X-cygwin/X and I have been unsucefully. opened the X terminal and it says: A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information. Vendor: The cygwin/project