| # It looks like -multiwindow mode triggers the static color visual in both the internal x2go xserver and the external vcxsrv | |
| # But it also looks like -multiwindow mode is how x2go client allows resizing of the remote desktop | |
| # ...so I'm looking for a way to allow resizing of remote desktop w/out triggering static color visual. | |
| # | |
| # ...output of vcxsrv.exe's usage note: | |
| Usage... | |
| Vcxsrv [:<display>] [option] | |
| :display-number | |
| Vcxsrv runs as the given display-number, which defaults to 0. | |
| To run multiple instances, use unique display-numbers. | |
| -a # default pointer acceleration (factor) | |
| -ac disable access control restrictions | |
| -audit int set audit trail level | |
| -auth file select authorization file | |
| -br create root window with black background | |
| +bs enable any backing store support | |
| -bs disable any backing store support | |
| -cc int default color visual class | |
| -nocursor disable the cursor | |
| -core generate core dump on fatal error | |
| -dpi [auto|int] screen resolution set to native or this dpi | |
| -dpms disables VESA DPMS monitor control | |
| -deferglyphs [none|all|16] defer loading of [no|all|16-bit] glyphs | |
| -f # bell base (0-100) | |
| -fc string cursor font | |
| -fn string default font name | |
| -fp string default font path | |
| -help prints message with these options | |
| -I ignore all remaining arguments | |
| -nolisten string don't listen on protocol | |
| -noreset don't reset after last client exists | |
| -background [none] create root window with no background | |
| -reset reset after last client exists | |
| -pn accept failure to listen on all ports | |
| -nopn reject failure to listen on all ports | |
| -r turns off auto-repeat | |
| r turns on auto-repeat | |
| -render [default|mono|gray|color] set render color alloc policy | |
| -retro start with classic stipple | |
| -seat string seat to run on | |
| -t # default pointer threshold (pixels/t) | |
| -terminate terminate at server reset | |
| -to # connection time out | |
| -tst disable testing extensions | |
| -wm WhenMapped default backing-store | |
| -wr create root window with white background | |
| +xinerama Enable XINERAMA extension | |
| -xinerama Disable XINERAMA extension | |
| -dumbSched Disable smart scheduling, enable old behavior | |
| -schedInterval int Set scheduler interval in msec | |
| +extension name Enable extension | |
| -extension name Disable extension | |
| -query host-name contact named host for XDMCP | |
| -broadcast broadcast for XDMCP | |
| -multicast [addr [hops]] IPv6 multicast for XDMCP | |
| -indirect host-name contact named host for indirect XDMCP | |
| -port port-num UDP port number to send messages to | |
| -from local-address specify the local address to connect from | |
| -once Terminate server after one session | |
| -class display-class specify display class to send in manage | |
| -cookie xdm-auth-bits specify the magic cookie for XDMCP | |
| -displayID display-id manufacturer display ID for request | |
| [+-]accessx [ timeout [ timeout_mask [ feedback [ options_mask] ] ] ] | |
| enable/disable accessx key sequences | |
| -ardelay set XKB autorepeat delay | |
| -arinterval set XKB autorepeat interval | |
| VcXsrv Device Dependent Usage: | |
| -[no]clipboard | |
| Enable [disable] the clipboard integration. Default is enabled. | |
| -[no]clipboardprimary | |
| [Do not] map the PRIMARY selection to the windows clipboard. | |
| The CLIPBOARD selection is always mapped if -clipboard is enabled. | |
| Default is mapped. | |
| -clipupdates num_boxes | |
| Use a clipping region to constrain shadow update blits to | |
| the updated region when num_boxes, or more, are in the | |
| updated region. | |
| -depth bits_per_pixel | |
| Specify an optional bitdepth to use in fullscreen mode | |
| with a DirectDraw engine. | |
| -[no]emulate3buttons [timeout] | |
| Emulate 3 button mouse with an optional timeout in | |
| milliseconds. | |
| -engine engine_type_id | |
| Override the server's automatically selected engine type: | |
| 1 - Shadow GDI | |
| 2 - Shadow DirectDraw | |
| 4 - Shadow DirectDraw4 Non-Locking | |
| -fullscreen | |
| Run the server in fullscreen mode. | |
| -hostintitle | |
| In multiwindow mode, add remote host names to window titles. | |
| -ignoreinput | |
| Ignore keyboard and mouse input. | |
| -[no]keyhook | |
| Grab special Windows keypresses like Alt-Tab or the Menu key. | |
| -lesspointer | |
| Hide the windows mouse pointer when it is over any | |
| VcXsrv window. This prevents ghost cursors appearing when | |
| the Windows cursor is drawn on top of the X cursor | |
| -logfile filename | |
| Write log messages to <filename>. | |
| -logverbose verbosity | |
| Set the verbosity of log messages. [NOTE: Only a few messages | |
| respect the settings yet] | |
| 0 - only print fatal error. | |
| 1 - print additional configuration information. | |
| 2 - print additional runtime information [default]. | |
| 3 - print debugging and tracing information. | |
| -[no]multimonitors or -[no]multiplemonitors | |
| Use the entire virtual screen if multiple | |
| monitors are present. | |
| -multiwindow | |
| Run the server in multi-window mode. | |
| -nodecoration | |
| Do not draw a window border, title bar, etc. Windowed | |
| mode only. | |
| -nounicodeclipboard | |
| Do not use Unicode clipboard even if on a NT-based platform. | |
| -refresh rate_in_Hz | |
| Specify an optional refresh rate to use in fullscreen mode | |
| with a DirectDraw engine. | |
| -resize=none|scrollbars|randr In windowed mode, [don't] allow resizing of the window. 'scrollbars' | |
| mode gives the window scrollbars as needed, 'randr' mode uses the RANR | |
| extension to resize the X screen. 'randr' is the default. | |
| -rootless | |
| Run the server in rootless mode. | |
| -screen scr_num [width height [x y] | [[WxH[+X+Y]][@m]] ] | |
| Enable screen scr_num and optionally specify a width and | |
| height and initial position for that screen. Additionally | |
| a monitor number can be specified to start the server on, | |
| at which point, all coordinates become relative to that | |
| monitor. Examples: | |
| -screen 0 800x600+100+100@2 ; 2nd monitor offset 100,100 size 800x600 | |
| -screen 0 1024x768@3 ; 3rd monitor size 1024x768 | |
| -screen 0 @1 ; on 1st monitor using its full resolution (the default) | |
| -silent-dup-error | |
| If another instance of VcXsrv with the same display number is running | |
| exit silently and don't display any error message. | |
| -swcursor | |
| Disable the usage of the Windows cursor and use the X11 software | |
| cursor instead. | |
| -[no]trayicon | |
| Do not create a tray icon. Default is to create one | |
| icon per screen. You can globally disable tray icons with | |
| -notrayicon, then enable it for specific screens with | |
| -trayicon for those screens. | |
| -[no]unixkill | |
| Ctrl+Alt+Backspace exits the X Server. | |
| -[no]wgl | |
| Enable the GLX extension to use the native Windows WGL interface for hardware-accelerated OpenGL | |
| -swrastwgl | |
| Enable the GLX extension to use the native Windows WGL interface based on the swrast interface for accelerated OpenGL | |
| -[no]winkill | |
| Alt+F4 exits the X Server. | |
| -xkblayout XKBLayout | |
| Equivalent to XKBLayout in XF86Config files. | |
| For example: -xkblayout de | |
| -xkbmodel XKBModel | |
| Equivalent to XKBModel in XF86Config files. | |
| -xkboptions XKBOptions | |
| Equivalent to XKBOptions in XF86Config files. | |
| -xkbrules XKBRules | |
| Equivalent to XKBRules in XF86Config files. | |
| -xkbvariant XKBVariant | |
| Equivalent to XKBVariant in XF86Config files. | |
| For example: -xkbvariant nodeadkeys | |
| (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. |
How did you find this? I haven't been able to find it, and running vcxsrv.exe -help doesn't produce this; neither does running it without commands. Documentation is quite literally non-existent on the project's SourceForge, and all I can find are these Gist's here and there by different people like yourself. Any ideas where I might be able to get an updated list for v1.20.6.0 (the latest version)?
% strings -n 8 $(which vcxsrv.exe)
Thanks. Some of the options have change in my version which results in a crash if you use the wrong ones.
-[no]clipboard Enable [disable] the clipboard integration. Default is enabled. -noprimary Do not map the PRIMARY selection to the windows clipboard. The CLIPBOARD selection is always mapped if -clipboard is enabled. Default is mapped. -clipupdates num_boxes Use a clipping region to constrain shadow update blits to the updated region when num_boxes, or more, are in the updated region. Diminished effect on current Windows versions because they already group GDI operations together in a batch, which has a similar effect. -[no]compositewm Enable [Disable] Composite extension. Default is enabled. Used in -multiwindow mode. Use Composite extension redirection to maintain a bitmap image of each top-level X window, so window contents which are occluded show correctly in Taskbar and Task Switcher previews. -[no]compositealpha X windows with per-pixel alpha are composited into the Windows desktop. -[no]compositewm Use the Composite extension to keep a bitmap image of each top-level X window, so window contents which are occluded show correctly in task bar and task switcher previews. -depth bits_per_pixel Specify an optional bitdepth to use in fullscreen mode with a DirectDraw engine. -[no]emulate3buttons [timeout] Emulate 3 button mouse with an optional timeout in milliseconds. -engine engine_type_id Override the server's automatically selected engine type: 1 - Shadow GDI 4 - Shadow DirectDraw4 Non-Locking -fullscreen Run the server in fullscreen mode. -[no]hostintitle In multiwindow mode, add remote host names to window titles. -icon icon_specifier Set screen window icon in windowed mode. -ignoreinput Ignore keyboard and mouse input. -[no]keyhook Grab special Windows keypresses like Alt-Tab or the Menu key. -lesspointer Hide the windows mouse pointer when it is over any VcXsrv window. This prevents ghost cursors appearing when the Windows cursor is drawn on top of the X cursor -logfile filename Write log messages to <filename>. -logverbose verbosity Set the verbosity of log messages. [NOTE: Only a few messages respect the settings yet] 0 - only print fatal error. 1 - print additional configuration information. 2 - print additional runtime information [default]. 3 - print debugging and tracing information. -[no]multimonitors or -[no]multiplemonitors Use the entire virtual screen if multiple monitors are present. -multiwindow Run the server in multiwindow mode. Not to be used together with -rootless or -fullscreen. -nodecoration Do not draw a window border, title bar, etc. Windowed mode only i.e. ignored when -fullscreen specified. -nounicodeclipboard Disable Unicode in the clipboard. -[no]primary When clipboard integration is enabled, map the X11 PRIMARY selection to the Windows clipboard. Default is enabled. -refresh rate_in_Hz Specify an optional refresh rate to use in fullscreen mode with a DirectDraw engine. -resize=none|scrollbars|randr In windowed mode, [don't] allow resizing of the window. 'scrollbars' mode gives the window scrollbars as needed, 'randr' mode uses the RANR extension to resize the X screen. 'randr' is the default. -rootless Use a transparent root window with an external window manager (such as openbox). Not to be used with -multiwindow or with -fullscreen. -screen scr_num [width height [x y] | [[WxH[+X+Y]][@m]] ] Enable screen scr_num and optionally specify a width and height and initial position for that screen. Additionally a monitor number can be specified to start the server on, at which point, all coordinates become relative to that monitor. Examples: -screen 0 800x600+100+100@2 ; 2nd monitor offset 100,100 size 800x600 -screen 0 1024x768@3 ; 3rd monitor size 1024x768 -screen 0 @1 ; on 1st monitor using its full resolution (the default) -swcursor Disable the usage of the Windows cursor and use the X11 software cursor instead. -[no]trayicon Do not create a notification area icon. Default is to create one icon per screen. You can globally disable notification area icons with -notrayicon, then enable them for specific screens with -trayicon for those screens. -[no]unixkill Ctrl-Alt-Backspace exits the X Server. The Ctrl-Alt-Backspace key combo is disabled by default. -[no]wgl Enable the GLX extension to use the native Windows WGL interface for hardware-accelerated OpenGL -swrastwgl Enable the GLX extension to use the native Windows WGL interface based on the swrast interface for accelerated OpenGL -[no]winkill Alt+F4 exits the X Server. -xkblayout XKBLayout Set the layout to use for XKB. This defaults to a layout matching your current layout from Windows or us (i.e. USA) if no matching layout was found. For example: -xkblayout de -xkbmodel XKBModel Set the model to use for XKB. This defaults to pc105. -xkboptions XKBOptions Set the options to use for XKB. This defaults to not set. -xkbrules XKBRules Set the rules to use for XKB. This defaults to xorg. -xkbvariant XKBVariant Set the variant to use for XKB. This defaults to not set. For example: -xkbvariant nodeadkeys
I realize that this was posted some time ago. However, I was having issues using -screen 0 @2 to try and display the X11 screen on my second monitor. However, when I do that; the full screen still appears to take over my primary screen.
This produced the following error in log file (with the attached popup screen):
Welcome to the VcXsrv X Server
Vendor: The VcXsrv Project
Release: 1.20.9.0
OS: Windows NT 6.2 build 9200 (64-bit)
Contact: marha@users.sourceforge.net
LoadPreferences: C:\Users\nero\AppData\Roaming.XWinrc not found
LoadPreferences: Loading C:\Program Files\VcXsrv\system.XWinrc
winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Could not set full screen display mode: 80004001
winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Using default driver refresh rate
winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Could not set default refresh rate full screen display mode: 80004001
winFinishScreenInitFB - Could not allocate framebuffer
winScreenInit - winFinishScreenInit () failed
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) InitOutput - Couldn't add screen 0(EE)
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
Thanks.