changes in monitor resolution

[Roger Levy]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Roger Levy wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I use Cygwin/X on my laptop all the time, and I often switch back and forth
>>between my XGA laptop display and an SXGA external monitor.  (I use
>>startxwin.bat to start the X server.)  What I find is that when I start xwin
>>while my laptop display is active, and then switch to the external monitor,
>>nothing displaying through X is visible on the bottom and right-hand sides of
>>the display.  I assume that this is because startxwin.bat detected my monitor
>>resolution as XGA and so configured its resolution as 1024x768, and doesn't
>>automatically resize when I switch displays.  I can fix this by closing the X
>>server and then restarting it, but then I have to close all my X clients too.
>>
>>Is there a way to either (a) automatically start X with SXGA resolution, or
>>(b) manually resize X after I switch monitors, without restarting it?
> 
> 
> (a) is possible -- you can pass screen size parameters to X.  For (b), see
> if -multiplemonitors does the right thing; if not, you're out of luck.
> 	Igor

Many thanks, I got (a) to work.  For reference, here is the command in 
my startxwin.bat that did the trick:

  run XWin -multiwindow -screen 0 1280x1024x32 -clipboard -silent-dup-error

Roger


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