Rootless mode only works on one monitor

Marcus Lindblom d98macke@dtek.chalmers.se
Sun Oct 20 12:08:00 GMT 2002


Problems solved!

The first was my bad (told nView not to let apps span two screens when
maximizing, do'h!).

'-engine 1' took care of the redraw problem, which appeared with
rootless as well.

/Marcus

> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com 
> 
> Try it with the ``-engine 1'' parameter and report your results.
> 
> Harold
> 
> Marcus Lindblom wrote:
> 
> >Hi!
> >
> >Am running Cygwin and Test67 of XWin.exe, a GF4 Ti4200 and a
> >nView-enhanced desktop (which windows sees as one monitor at 
> 2560x1024,
> >not as two 1280x1024).
> >
> >Rootless mode is really cool, but the windows only shows on 
> one of the
> >screens (the primary).
> >
> >Also, when running with a root window, I can get it to 
> strectch across
> >both screens, but I get the same bug that was reported a while ago: a
> >white part on the right side. Looks like only the 2048 leftmost pixel
> >columns are redrawn, and the rest are missed out (they get redrawn
> >sometimes, but very seldom.)
> >
> >/Marcus
> >
> >  
> >
> 



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