Help Needed For Multiple Monitors

[Geordy Korte]

Hi Surnder,

Make sure that both monitors have the same color depth. A couple of
years ago you even needed to have the same resolution on the monitors
but that was fixed.  Check you color depth.

Geordy
On 7/11/07, Surinder Singh <surinder.p.s@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Geordy:
>
> I tried what you said and it still does not change anything.  In
> additon, i tried the -multiplemonitors options too, without success.
>
> I don't know how to solve this.
>
> Surnder
>
> On 7/11/07, Geordy Korte <gkorte@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Try restarting the X server.  If you start the X server and after that
> > you switch on the secondi screen in windows then you will get these
> > white screens.  Samething happens if you resize your screen.  Should
> > that not help then here is my X server startup:
> >
> > %RUN% XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Geordy
> >
> > On 7/10/07, Surinder Singh <surinder.p.s@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > My setup has multiple monitors (or dual monitors). Since I may not be
> > > using the correct term for that, let me just describe that to remove
> > > any ambuguity.  I have the laptop display and then a monitor
> > > connected.  I can drag windows from one to the other display *as if*
> > > the two monitors were connected physically (they are not).  So I have
> > > one computer (my laptop) and two displays.
> > >
> > > what I notice is that when I open startx, the window displays well on
> > > the screen of the laptop, but not on the extra monitor.  When I drag
> > > it there, it becomes white and nothing is visible inside the window.
> > >
> > > I searched the archives and googled and googled.  Best I got was an
> > > advice to add "-multiplemonitors" the list of options for X to start.
> > > I did that, and it does not help.   What should I be doing?  (I am
> > > using the latest cygwin).
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
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