1.0 - question about openning Cygwin/X on a secondary display

Alexander Gottwald alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Wed Apr 6 09:04:00 GMT 2005


On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Adam Hutchison wrote:

> I'm trying to get Cygwin/X to open on a secodary display of a
> dual-monitor system.  Cygwin is running on Windows XP SP2 and is
> connecting to a Solaris box using XDMCP.  It opens with no problems on
> the primary display, and will also open using both displays when passed
> the '-multimonitor' option.  I have also tried setting the DISPLAY
> variable to a different display (i.e. 127.0.0.1:1.0), but that didn't
> work (unless I did it wrong).  Here is my batch file:

XWin -screen 0 @2 will bring Cygwin/X up on the second screen. 

bye
	ago
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