Disruptive screen resolution change when using remote desktop

Mansoorali Kudsi mansoorali.kudsi@gmail.com
Wed May 23 14:50:00 GMT 2007


Was there any reply to this mail?
I too face this issue and am eager to know the solution...

On 5/18/07, Burvil <bowei_99@yahoo.com> wrote:
> So, does anyone have any thoughts on this post from a
> couple days ago?
>
> --- Burvil <bowei_99@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have my Cygwin/X set up with a root window running
> > the fluxbox window manager on my desktop.  It works
> > quite well if I'm logged in to the system itself,
> > i.e.
> > I'm physically at the computer.
> >
> > However, if I login to my system via remote desktop,
> > as I often need to do, the screen resolution is
> > usually lower than that of the desktop, and so I get
> > the following eror message:
> >
> > Disruptive screen resolution change
> > Restore previous resolution to use Cygwin/X
> >
> > Clicking on 'Dismiss' does nothing - it apparently
> > tries to correct itself, but fails, and the error
> > message persists until I kill the X server.
> >
> > I looked at the following messages, after which I
> > tried changing startxwin.bat to enable scrollbars
> > and
> > making sure color depth was the same on the OS of
> > the
> > remote and local systems as well as in cygwin/X
> > itself.
> >
> >
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00508.html
> >
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00480.html
> >
> > I also tried setting the root window resolution to
> > 1024x768, which is a lot more common than the
> > 1680x1050 on my desktop.  Even when the screen
> > resolution of the remote system, i.e. where the
> > system
> > I'm using remote desktop on, is, say, 1152x864, I
> > still get the same error message.
> >
> > Is there a way to get around this other than getting
> > a
> > monitor that's the same resolution as my desktop?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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