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Re: cygwin windows are white in 2nd monitor
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:52:19 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: cygwin windows are white in 2nd monitor
- References: <D6D641E6B5A2784E9253AC09C75B3F020224DED0@msgswbiadsm04.wellsfargo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Jeff.Blosser wrote:
> I upgraded to XP SP2, yes I was behind. After patching, all windows that
> are controlled by cygwin, local xterm, remote display's sent to this
> computer, are all white. The windows work fine in the primary screen
> (screen 1). I start cygwin with c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat. I
> have not modified this script from the default install so XWin starts
> with "XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error".
>
> After patching XP, I thought that I might need to reinstall cygwin, so I
> reinstalled all components of cygwin I was using with setup.exe. I am
> not sure what version of Cygwin, but hopefully it is up to date since I
> used setup.exe to install. When I run uname -a I get CYGWIN_NT-5.1
> 1.5.20_0.156/4/2. Thanks.
Try giving the -multiplemonitors option to XWin.
Igor
P.S. You shouldn't need to reinstall Cygwin after patching XP.
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