Re: Refresh needed after Remote Desktop Connection

2011-06-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 10/06/2011 04:30, Trollope, David wrote: I've been encountering a new behaviour recently which I'm hoping someone can shed some light on or suggest some tweak that will help. When you say this is 'new behavior', when did it start? When you upgraded the cygwin X server? or something else

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_console.cc

2011-06-24 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2011-06-24 08:25:19 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_console.cc Log message: * fhandler_console.cc (fhandler_console::read): Don't generate ^@ on Ctrl+Alt+Space.

Re: [PATCH] Prevent restart of crashing non-Cygwin exe

2011-06-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Christian, On Jun 23 19:52, Christian Franke wrote: If a non-Cygwin .exe started from a Cygwin shell window segfaults, Cygwin restarts the .exe 5 times. [...l] * sigproc.cc (child_info::sync): Add exit_code to debug message. (child_info::proc_retry): Don't retry on

Re: Altgr+space doesn't print the expected character when using bash and bépo keyboard layout

2011-06-24 Thread menfin
I'm sure we are not a lot of user concerning by this bug so I just want to confirm it. It's very painful. Copy/paste also has an odd behaviour : - when I switch to azerty to paste a string copied in notepad, underscores are pasted. - when I switch back to bépo to paste the same string,

Re: Altgr+space doesn't print the expected character when using bash and bépo keyboard layout

2011-06-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 24 00:02, menfin wrote: I'm sure we are not a lot of user concerning by this bug so I just want to confirm it. It's very painful. Copy/paste also has an odd behaviour : - when I switch to azerty to paste a string copied in notepad, underscores are pasted. - when I switch back to

Re: Installing cygwin on Windows 7 prompts for Admin credentials

2011-06-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 23 15:52, Robert Jacobson wrote: Hi, I would like to let one of my users install cygwin as a normal (non-admin) account. However, when they run setup.exe, they get a UAC prompt Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to your computer?

Re: Strange cygpath behavior.

2011-06-24 Thread Marco atzeri
On 6/23/2011 8:06 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Marco atzeri! On 6/23/2011 5:05 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Marco atzeri! Cygwin, to my best understanding, is supposed to transparently accept native Windows paths. No, cygwin expects to receive POSIX/Unix paths $ cygpath -h

Re: Altgr+space doesn't print the expected character when using bash and bépo keyboard layout

2011-06-24 Thread menfin
Thanks for your answer. However, I still doubt about your hypothesis : how do you explain the paste problem I described ? Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote: I didn't install bepo but I think I see what happens. At one point we found that Cygwin didn't allow to generate ASCII NUL, which is usually

Re: Altgr+space doesn't print the expected character when using bash and bépo keyboard layout

2011-06-24 Thread Andy Koppe
On 24 June 2011 09:56, menfin wrote: Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote: I didn't install bepo but I think I see what happens. At one point we found that Cygwin didn't allow to generate ASCII NUL, which is usually mapped to Ctrl+Space. The expression which special-cases this key sequence just

Re: Installing cygwin on Windows 7 prompts for Admin credentials

2011-06-24 Thread Robert Jacobson
On 6/24/2011 4:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Or rename setup.exe to foo.exe. Thanks! I'm both relieved and dismayed that it is so easy to bypass ... -- Robert Jacobson -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Altgr+space doesn't print the expected character when using bash and bépo keyboard layout

2011-06-24 Thread menfin
I tried mintty and it works fine. It's a good workaround and I can now use cygwin with my keyboard. I'll give a try to the next version of cygwin with console2 when it'll be released. I have to admit I don't have the time to try to make work a snapshot version. Thank you both. Andy Koppe

RE: Strange cygpath behavior.

2011-06-24 Thread Fahlgren, Eric
Marco atzeri wrote: you are right, but it is not very useful to translate a windows path in a windows path ... On the contrary, it is exceedingly useful to be able to transform long names (with spaces) into short-form names without spaces. $ cygpath -sm $PROGRAMFILES -- Problem reports:

Re: Strange cygpath behavior.

2011-06-24 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2011-06-24 11:44, Fahlgren, Eric wrote: Marco atzeri wrote: you are right, but it is not very useful to translate a windows path in a windows path ... On the contrary, it is exceedingly useful to be able to transform long names (with spaces) into short-form names without spaces. $