display depth changing when using remote desktop and -multiwindow option, unable to set depth manually with -multiwindow

Hello. I use Cygwin/X on my office computer to run a program called Cadence (using 24-bit display), but have limited Cygwin functionality when I use remote desktop to work from home. Displays are set to 32-bit on both computers, and the Windows XP remote-desktop protocol (RDP) version I am

Re: display depth changing when using remote desktop and -multiwindow option, unable to set depth manually with -multiwindow

Jason May schrieb: I believe that Cygwin is detecting the optimal display settings on startup and determining it to be less than 32-bit when initiated through remote desktop. I would use the -depth command line option to manually set the depth to 32 bits, but this does not work with

Re: display depth changing when using remote desktop and -multiwindow option, unable to set depth manually with -multiwindow

Thanks Holger for the response. - You can't set Xwins display depth larger than the Desktop it is running on. Usually that would be 16 Bit with rdp sessions. Did you ever check on the rdp Windows Desktop that you really get 32 Bit in Windows? Because i get 16 Bit even if i request 24