Starting cygwin problem

Rasjid Wilcox rasjidw@openminddev.net
Sun Sep 15 05:23:00 GMT 2002


On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 10:12 pm, Stephen Liu wrote:
<snip>
> Linux occupies the whole monitor screen and I am not allowed to resize
> (reduce its window frame) its window so that WinXP will also appear on the
> monitor screen simultaneously.  If Linux window can't be resized then I
> have to shrink it to icon in order to view WinXP window.  Is it possible to
> adjust Linux window frame manually with the mouse?

No.

>  If NOT, is there any
> solution to get a smaller Linux window.

Yes.  Read my original response.  Use the 'screen' paramater.  Read the XWin 
'man' page.  That is what they are there for.

You can even run
$ XWin.exe -help
$ cat /tmp/XWin.log

Rasjid.



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