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Re: Problem with Multi-Monitor Mode (Win XP) and size of remoteX-Windows
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:55:56 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Problem with Multi-Monitor Mode (Win XP) and size of remoteX-Windows
- References: <42A027E0.8040105@gmx.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, chris schlund wrote:
> when i export my display from my linux box to my xp box i got problems
> with the heigth/width of several application windows
> ( e.g. yast2, eclipse3 (some message boxes),..). these apps opens a
> windows which fully fills up both monitors.
> i dont know anything about X and if i address the right mailing list
> with that problem, but there must be some functions like
> GetDisplayHeigth() and GetDisplayWidth() and I think these function
> returns the overall size over both monitors.
> wouldn't it be a better idea to return only heigth/width of current
> monitor (whichever this is).
Cygwin/X creates a work area which includes the whole desktop. This in
result is the only monitor (or screen in X11 terms) the xserver knows
about and therefore a distinction between the two monitors in X11 is
not possible unless someone starts working on xinerama support in Cygwin/X.
bye
ago
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