xterm can't display on second monitor

David Sagenaut david.verizon@verizon.net
Wed Nov 1 02:23:00 GMT 2006


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From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]
On Behalf Of Cary Jamison
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:06 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
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Subject: Re: xterm can't display on second monitor

David Sagenaut wrote:
> I use a dual head display in a WinXP system. When starting
> startxwin.bat it opens an xterm window that works while it is on the
> main display. But when I drag it into the second display it doesn't
> show any characters and doesn't accept keystrokes anymore. They
> appear when I drag the window back into the primary display. Is that
> a bug or have I misconfigured anything?
>

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-multihead



Cary

Hi Cary, thanks for your reply.  I did put -multiplemonitors options when
start xwin.exe, but it still doesn't work.  I am wandering what else I need
to config in order to make it work.


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