From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18103 invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2004 16:38:09 -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 18096 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2004 16:38:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sys28.mail.msu.edu) (35.9.75.128) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 Jan 2004 16:38:08 -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 1AfM7k-00046M-6Q for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:38:08 -0500 Message-ID: <40002A72.3060801@msu.edu> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:38:00 -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: <1073640179.8704.4.camel@famine> 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/msg00193.txt.bz2 List-Id: Øyvind, Jack Tanner had some valid points for keeping -nomultiplemonitors. The reason we won't just remove the -multiplemonitors option is a little easier: 1) XWin.exe does not print nor popup error messages when it exists; rather, it logs them to /tmp/XWin.log. 2) Removing the -multiplemonitors option will cause XWin.exe to fail to start. 3) Must users do not know to look at /tmp/XWin.log to see that they passed an invalid parameter. 4) We will start seeing lots of fun reports on the mailing list asking why XWin.exe is crashing on startup, when it is in fact just reporting that -multiplemonitors is an invalid parameter. That is why we don't remove old parameters completely. We don't want to waste time debugging non-problems caused by doing so. Harold Øyvind Harboe wrote: > Harold, > > perhaps the below should *always* be TRUE and there shouldn't be > an option at all? > > g_ScreenInfo[i].fMultipleMonitors = TRUE; > > If so, then the changes TBD are: > > - remove the -multiplemontiors option > - always set fMultipleMonitors=TRUE, or remove fMultipleMontiors altogether. > > (Code removed is not code deleted; it is in CVS in case it needs to be summoned > at some point.) > > > Thanks for these tips BTW: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-01/msg00160.html > > Øyvind > > >