From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12028 invoked by alias); 14 Jun 2010 19:47:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 12020 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Jun 2010 19:47:21 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ww0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-ww0-f43.google.com) (74.125.82.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:47:16 +0000 Received: by wwa36 with SMTP id 36so8823937wwa.2 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:47:10 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.151.145 with SMTP id c17mr6151015wbw.157.1276544830693; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:47:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.90.4 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:47:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C168507.6010803@gmail.com> References: <4C168507.6010803@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:47:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: empty x windows From: Jeff Spirko To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2010-06/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:37 PM, J. Bruce Dean wrote: > When running dual displays, using cygwin/x, the external monitor frames a= re 'invisible'. > The window moves from the (laptop) display, working, on the external moni= tor they > have a border, but the background is a snapshot of the app running on the= external > monitor. If I type, it works, but nothing displays. Moving the window mov= es the > snapshot of the background. Moving back to the primary display I can see = whatever > I typed on the external monitor. Searching provided some things to try, s= uch as the > 'screens' and 'mulitplemonitors', neither worked. One important thing is to make sure the X server is started while the second monitor is active. I know that if I start XWin in single-monitor mode, then attach the second monitor, the X server needs to be restarted. Hope that helps, -Jeff -- Jeff Spirko =A0 spirko@gmail.com =A0 spirko@lehigh.edu =A0 WD3V =A0 |=3D> The study of non-linear physics is like the study of non-elephant biology. -- 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/