From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15514 invoked by alias); 3 Feb 2010 19:43:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 15505 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Feb 2010 19:43:46 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (HELO smtpout.karoo.kcom.com) (212.50.160.34) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:43:43 +0000 Received: from 213-152-38-55.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO [192.168.0.6]) ([213.152.38.55]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 03 Feb 2010 19:43:42 +0000 Message-ID: <4B69D1FF.2070107@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:43:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: screen not updated outside 1680x1050 References: <83E753BE7B6A324ABB336245BAF1DAAC0DA068D5@mailserver.metatv-ds.metatv.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-02/txt/msg00012.txt.bz2 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/