screen not updated outside 1680x1050

[Jon TURNEY]

On 18/12/2009 06:11, Frédéric Bron wrote:
>>> XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error
>>>
>>> ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
>>> winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1680 h 1050
>>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Looks like the system doesn't see your whole resolution at startup.
>> I'd pass "-screen 0 1920x1200" to XWin.exe.  I tried this to reduce my screen resolution,
>> and saw things similar to what you describe outside the declared screensize.
>
> Works fine, thanks a lot! In fact I saw only the following lines so
> that I thought it was OK with the resolution:
>
> 2009-12-17 13:47:46 winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - orig bpp: 32,
> last bpp: 32, new bpp: 32
> 2009-12-17 13:47:46 winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 1920
> new height: 1200

As you have discovered, XWin doesn't understand about display resolution 
changes.  This is actually mentioned in the XWin man page, and at [1]

[1] http://x.cygwin.com/devel/todo.html

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