Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-12-02 Thread Mark A. Ziesemer
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: I don't have a multihead setup, so I'm unable to test any of this. Just a thought for a work-around for testing, in case you or anyone else is interested. Install Synergy (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/), ZoneScreen (http://www.zoneos.com/zonescreen.htm), or an

Re: [Solved]: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-17 Thread Mark A. Ziesemer
at the primary screen needs to be the most top & left screen is an artificial restriction that will only cause frustration for maybe half of all multi-monitor users. -- Mark A. Ziesemer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: ht

Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-17 Thread Mark A. Ziesemer
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: I think that patch was already committed[1], but the code has clearly changed significantly from then. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-05/msg00210.html So can someone look into this, or at acknowledge that it's probably something that needs to be looke

Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-17 Thread Mark A. Ziesemer
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: I think that patch was already committed[1], but the code has clearly changed significantly from then. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-05/msg00210.html So can someone look into this, or at acknowledge that it's probably something that needs to be looke

Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-17 Thread Mark A . Ziesemer
Jon TURNEY dronecode.org.uk> writes: > I think what you are seeing here is the fact that an X screen must be > rectangular. > A rectangle which doesn't cover the taskbar on one monitor can't cover the > matching area on an adjacent monitor. > > Or have I misunderstood what you are describing? N

XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-16 Thread Mark A . Ziesemer
I just installed the latest Cygwin (1.5.25-15) and xorg-server (1.5.3-2) on Windows XP SP3. I'm just using the defaults, and starting C:\cygwin\bin\startxwin.bat. If I do this with only one monitor activated within Windows, everything works. However, it seems that some part of this (the XWin win