new to XFree86 on Windows - questions

Suhaib Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Thu May 31 04:11:00 GMT 2001


All of your questions had been discussed several times at the mailing list.
Can you please do a search on mailing list archives?  I am sure you will
find 
answers.

Suhaib

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> From: Heiko Nardmann [ mailto:h.nardmann@secunet.de ] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:42 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: new to XFree86 on Windows - questions
> 
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> I have a few questions after the first starting of KDE2 from 
> my Linux machine 
> using XFree86:
> 
> 1. currently XFree86 seems to use an US keyboard although I 
> have a German 
> one. How/where to change this?
> 
> 2. I see a title bar "Cygwin/XFree86" and some white borders 
> to the right and 
> bottom of my screen although I started XWin with 1600x1200 
> which is my 
> WIndows resolution. How do I get full screen?
> This results in some graphics errors, too.
> 
> 3. are there some possibilities to do some tuning? switching 
> desktops in KDE 
> is significantly slower with XFree86 than with the commercial Exceed.
> 
> 4. is there somewhere a X display chooser? I tried the XWin 
> "-broadcast" 
> option but only got the standard display from my Linux 
> machine and not the 
> list of available machines with XDMs.
> 
> 
> - -- 
> Heiko Nardmann (Dipl.-Ing.), h.nardmann@secunet.de, Software 
> Development
> secunet Security Networks AG - Sicherheit in Netzwerken 
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