I'm trying to run Xwindows on my TC1000 to acces

[mmccool]

I'm trying to run Xwindows on my TC1000 to access remote Unix systems and run local X programs under cygwin. I have installed cygwin and the XFree86 server that comes with that, and after running "startx &" in the shell and logging into the remote system using "ssh -X" everything works fine.

However, I use a dock and have a larger, secondary monitor (1280x1024, 17").

Unfortunately, the Xserver always comes up in my smaller "primary" display, and while it can be MOVED to the larger display, it cannot be resized. All the usual suspects for starting the Xserver on a different display/screen ("startx -- :0.1", "startx -- -screen 1",
trying -display 1 -screen 0, etc) don't work, or cause the program to go beserk (:0.1 causes a retry loop that has to be terminated with extreme prejudice).

Note that on the TC1000, you cannot (manually, anyways) reverse the primary and secondary displays. The tablet is always primary, and that option is greyed out on the settings. Also, this happens regardless of where I launch the Xserver (with a shell on the primary or on the secondary).

Anyways... is there any way to get this to work?

Also, if anyone out there has developed an X window manager "skin" especially useful with a pen (w/o a middle mouse button, for instance, and with configurable buttons for everything) I'd be interested.

[thadk]

You might try a different X server than XFree. If you get it working please tell how, I'll probably be making use of X once mine comes in as well.

[thadk]

You might try a different X server than XFree. If you get it working please tell how, I'll probably be making use of X once mine comes in as well.

[markpayton]

Have you tried using the nVidia extension to send the application to the other monitor? I haven't used my docking station in a while, but when I was using it more, I recall (perhaps incorreclty) that this app had a memory and would always open on the second monitor after I "sent" it there.

Mark

[markpayton]

Have you tried using the nVidia extension to send the application to the other monitor? I haven't used my docking station in a while, but when I was using it more, I recall (perhaps incorreclty) that this app had a memory and would always open on the second monitor after I "sent" it there.

Mark

[mmccool]

I found a solution: put the following in ".xserverrc" in your cygwin home directory:

exec X -multiplemonitors -rootless

then use "startx &" to bring up Xwindows. This layers the individual X windows in among the other XP windows, on both monitors. You can even drag X windows between monitors. The default window manager (twm) is a little crufty, but I know there's a way to fix that too, which I hope to play with tomorrow and report on here. You can leave off the "rootless" if you want, but then the X server takes over everything (which is OK if you run the MS desktop manager and keep X on only one off the four panels). One problem with the rootless X server is that when you drag windows, you can't see the outlines showing where they will go if those outlines are not on top of other X windows. But if you release the mouse, the windows DO move to their proper places.

You will need to update to a recent version of cygwin/XFree86 for this to work, though.

[mmccool]

I found a solution: put the following in ".xserverrc" in your cygwin home directory:

exec X -multiplemonitors -rootless

then use "startx &" to bring up Xwindows. This layers the individual X windows in among the other XP windows, on both monitors. You can even drag X windows between monitors. The default window manager (twm) is a little crufty, but I know there's a way to fix that too, which I hope to play with tomorrow and report on here. You can leave off the "rootless" if you want, but then the X server takes over everything (which is OK if you run the MS desktop manager and keep X on only one off the four panels). One problem with the rootless X server is that when you drag windows, you can't see the outlines showing where they will go if those outlines are not on top of other X windows. But if you release the mouse, the windows DO move to their proper places.

You will need to update to a recent version of cygwin/XFree86 for this to work, though.