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Hi,

I've no idea if this is a Cygwin/X issue ! When I run cygwin, I use 
Windows as window terminal:

%RUN% XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error +bs),

I'm not opening another window terminal on top of Windows (I mean, all 
my windows are being opened on my Windows desktop). It seems to me that 
Windows is capable of handling the multi-screen environment (I can open 
any application on Windows and it works on both monitors), but Cygwin is 
not: if I work on the login xterm that I've moved to the second monitor 
I can type and work on it without any problem, but as soon as I execute 
a program that sends a separate window to my desktop it only works if 
this window runs on my laptop's monitor.

I'll post the same question on the other forum as well, just in case.

Thanks !

			Fab

Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> Fabrizio Salvatore wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I run cygwin on my Windows XP laptop and I now have a second monitor 
>> that I use to extend my desktop. Although I can use both monitors 
>> without any problem with Windows, when I run cygwin I noticed the 
>> following: when I open a new xterm, this will always be open on my 
>> laptop's monitor and when I move it to the other monitor I can type 
>> everything without any problem on the login window, but if I launch 
>> for example xemacs, I can write on the xemacs window only if I put it 
>> on the laptop's monitor: when I move it to the extenal monitor I can 
>> see it, but I cannot type on it or for instance close it. I have 
>> noticed the same also when I launch other applications (ROOT, for 
>> example). Is this  because cygwin only recognizes my laptop's monitor 
>> as the Windows terminal ? If so, is there a way to tell cygwin to 
>> 'extend' the Windows terminal to the external monitor, when this is 
>> present ?
> 
> 1] You must be talking about Cygwin/X, so your question might be better
> of directed to that mailing list.
> 
> 2] It worked just fine for me on my dual monitor set up, at least opening
> up various X windows. I don't use xemacs but rather GNU emacs, so I'm 
> not sure
> what the problem might be.
> 
> 3] As Cygwin/X is sort of an orphan package, you might look into the 
> Xming package,
> as found at http://www.straightrunning.com
> 

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