Starting X on a second monitor - kludge that works
Alexander Gottwald
alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Mon Dec 6 15:57:00 GMT 2004
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Thomas Chadwick wrote:
> [snip]
>
> >-screen 800x600@2 which means a window of size 800x600 on monitor 2
>
> Seems to me it's logical if the behavior is such that "-screen 0 $W $H"
> opens on the primary monitor, while "-screen 1 $W $H" opens on the secondary
> monitor. X-clients with DISPLAY=:0.0 will open on the primary monitor while
> X-clients with DISPLAY=:0.1 will open on the secondary monitor. Isn't that
> how X behaves on dual-headed *nix machines?
No. What a X11 screen is is defined nowhere. With the xorg and xfree server it's
another vga card. Cygwin/X does not depend on hardware. So a screen is just another
canvas to draw to. You could start Xwin with two separate windows which are both
screens. Or like I do a windowed screen for the remote desktop and a second
screen running in multiwindow mode which covers both monitors and where I can
show other X11 windows.
Separating the virtual desktop into screens again brings us to the same point
where Xinerama is used on xorg/xfree to glue the screens together
bye
ago
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