Re: changes in monitor resolution

[Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:02 +0000, Roger Levy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use Cygwin/X on my laptop all the time, and I often switch back and 
> forth between my XGA laptop display and an SXGA external monitor.  (I 
> use startxwin.bat to start the X server.)  What I find is that when I 
> start xwin while my laptop display is active, and then switch to the 
> external monitor, nothing displaying through X is visible on the bottom 
> and right-hand sides of the display.  I assume that this is because 
> startxwin.bat detected my monitor resolution as XGA and so configured 
> its resolution as 1024x768, and doesn't automatically resize when I 
> switch displays.  I can fix this by closing the X server and then 
> restarting it, but then I have to close all my X clients too.
> 
> Is there a way to either (a) automatically start X with SXGA resolution, 
> or (b) manually resize X after I switch monitors, without restarting it?

There isn't a current way to do it. Although I've got plans to make XWin
understand the RandR extension which is the rotate & resize facility.

This way we can get an event of when the screen size changes and update
the Xserver to handle the new size.

Alan.

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