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Re: extending desktop to a second monitor
Hi,
I've no idea if this is a Cygwin/X issue ! When I run cygwin, I use
Windows as window terminal:
%RUN% XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error +bs),
I'm not opening another window terminal on top of Windows (I mean, all
my windows are being opened on my Windows desktop). It seems to me that
Windows is capable of handling the multi-screen environment (I can open
any application on Windows and it works on both monitors), but Cygwin is
not: if I work on the login xterm that I've moved to the second monitor
I can type and work on it without any problem, but as soon as I execute
a program that sends a separate window to my desktop it only works if
this window runs on my laptop's monitor.
I'll post the same question on the other forum as well, just in case.
Thanks !
Fab
Jonathan Arnold wrote:
Fabrizio Salvatore wrote:
Hi,
I run cygwin on my Windows XP laptop and I now have a second monitor
that I use to extend my desktop. Although I can use both monitors
without any problem with Windows, when I run cygwin I noticed the
following: when I open a new xterm, this will always be open on my
laptop's monitor and when I move it to the other monitor I can type
everything without any problem on the login window, but if I launch
for example xemacs, I can write on the xemacs window only if I put it
on the laptop's monitor: when I move it to the extenal monitor I can
see it, but I cannot type on it or for instance close it. I have
noticed the same also when I launch other applications (ROOT, for
example). Is this because cygwin only recognizes my laptop's monitor
as the Windows terminal ? If so, is there a way to tell cygwin to
'extend' the Windows terminal to the external monitor, when this is
present ?
1] You must be talking about Cygwin/X, so your question might be better
of directed to that mailing list.
2] It worked just fine for me on my dual monitor set up, at least opening
up various X windows. I don't use xemacs but rather GNU emacs, so I'm
not sure
what the problem might be.
3] As Cygwin/X is sort of an orphan package, you might look into the
Xming package,
as found at http://www.straightrunning.com
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