Cygwin/X on multiple displays, nothing displayed

[Justin Patrin]

On 8/30/06, Brian Ford <Brian.Ford@flightsafety.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Justin Patrin wrote:
>
> > On 8/29/06, Brian Ford <Brian's email address> wrote:
>
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR
> Thanks.
>
> > > On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Justin Patrin wrote:
> > > > Does anyone have any clues how to fix this issue?
> > >
> > > -multiplemonitors ?
> >
> > Thanks, I should have checked for/tried that previously. Unfortunately
> > it makes no difference at all. I've attempted some more things and
> > here is what I have found:
> >
> > -multiplemonitors makes no difference with any of the other options I tried.
> >
> > -multiwindow is my default mode and works on one monitor but not on
> > two. Some more testing today has shown that output works only on the
> > leftmost monitor but only at the resolution of the primary monitor.
>
> Works fine for me with two.  Are the two monitors at different color
> depths?  Are they being driven by the same vendor's video driver?
>

Ah, it would be something so obvious that I didn't think of it. It was
the color depth. My reinstall set the color depth to the default which
is 16-bit for the LCD but 32-bit for the monitor. Switching the LCD to
32-bit fixed the problem.

Thanks a lot, this has been bugging me for quite a while.

-- 
Justin Patrin

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