[Solved]: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Jon TURNEY jon.turney at dronecode.org.uk writes:
 Or have I misunderstood what you are describing?

I think I have fix.  I had the same and very annoying behavior that every new
x11 window or frame appeared 'hidden' and had to brought into view via
RightMouse - Move followed by cursor keys.   I have a four-monitor setup.

It appears that where the 'primary' screen is mattered.  My primary screen was
the bottom-right one.  Changing that in Windows (right-click Desktop -
Properties - Settings; select the top-left window, select 'Use this device as
the primary monitor' and hit Apply) was the key.   

Now with the primary window being window 1 at the top-left, all new x11 windows
and frame appear there.  Much better!

Last but not least, thanks to all Cygwin developers for continued maintenance 
of Cygwin, and in particular for the x11 updates.  

Cheers, Dirk




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Re: [Solved]: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Mark A. Ziesemer online at mark.ziesemer.com writes:
 Sorry, but I don't consider this a solution.  None of the other 

It is imperfect, but at least as a stop-gap measure, it allows me to get work 
done rathern than having to drag windows into view by hand.

I also had rather bad instability of x11 apps brought in via Cygwin/X11, and 
this
_seems_ to have improved though it is a little too early to tell for sure.

Dirk


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