From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17094 invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2004 16:34:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 17087 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2004 16:34:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sys28.mail.msu.edu) (35.9.75.128) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Jan 2004 16:34:54 -0000 Received: from [207.179.68.222] (helo=msu.edu) by sys28.mail.msu.edu with asmtp (Exim 4.24 #37) (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1AfM4c-0003xZ-2j for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:34:54 -0500 Message-ID: <400029B0.4050103@msu.edu> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:34:00 -0000 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Configuration for multiple monitors References: <1073640179.8704.4.camel@famine> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus: None found by Clam AV X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00192.txt.bz2 List-Id: Jack, Jack Tanner wrote: > Øyvind Harboe wrote: > >> perhaps the below should *always* be TRUE and there shouldn't be an >> option at all? > > > No, I'd like -nomultiplemonitors to exist. > > I have two monitors, but the second is usually turned off. Various X > client dialog boxes and application windows usually come up in the > center of my desktop, which means half on one monitor, and half on the > other. If that weren't annoying enough, it makes life sheer hell when > one monitor is turned off! > > This is why I do not use -multiplemonitors, even though I /have/ > multiple monitors. Even when both monitors are turned on, it's plenty to > have one for X apps, and another for regular Windows apps. That is pretty much why I would want to make sure we have a -nomultiplemonitors switch. In fact, we should finally look into a system to allow the user to specify which screen we should start up on. That would be nice. > Granted, the real solution to this issue would be to play nice with > nVidia's nView software. It offers these modes for dual-monitor work > (the following is copied verbatim from nView on-line help; the mode I > use is Dualview, which I believe is nVidia's default): Well, I have an nVidia graphics card now, but you'll have to contribute to the fund to buy me a second matching Samsung SyncMaster 191T flat panel if you expect me to be able to work on this :) At the momement (read: for the last three years) I have only one monitor. Harold