mintty problem with tail -f on Windows XP with virtual desktops
I am really glad I switched from rxvt to mintty as it works great with or without X11. I am seeing one problem, though, where I wonder if there is a fix. I have observed the problem when switching between virtual desktops for both Windows Desktop Manager and Dexpot Desktop Manager. I frequently remote into servers and run tail -f to monitor various log files. I have noticed when I switched to another virtual desktop, the mintty sessions in the hidden virtual desktops do not get updated. When I switch back to the desktop and hit the enter key within the mintty window it seems to catch up. But, for some reason, the windows display gets jumbled. Is there a way to refresh the window such that it looks normal without disturbing the running process (tail)? Thank you! -- Larry Breyer Isis Pharmaceuticals Carlsbad, Calif. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Larry Breyer on 9/27/2006 3:22 PM: What changed from bash 3.1.17 to 3.1.18 ? I don't know, but let me know when you find out :) (There is no 3.1.18 - the latest official bash is 3.1.17, at cygwin release 8, but upstream is very unlikely to release 3.1.18 since 3.2 is in beta now.) I am a bit confused by these numbering schemes. When I look at the 'Select Packages' section of setup, my choices for bash are 3.1-6 or 3.1-8. I assumed they were shorthand for 3.1.16 and 3.1.18. I got syntax errors on blank lines. That means your script has CRLF line endings, but resides on a binary mount point. I think I panicked slightly at discovering Cygwin bash had been regressed. I was thinking of all the supplied scripts so I ran a test of the ~450 shell scripts and found only a handful with CR embedded: /bin/card /bin/fixps /bin/flea /bin/makempx /bin/mktexlsr /bin/nfs-server-config /etc/postinstall/uw-imap-imapd.sh.don /etc/postinstall/xerces-c-devel.sh.done /etc/preremove/gv.sh /etc/preremove/uw-imap-imapd.sh /etc/preremove/X-start-menu-icons.sh.done /etc/preremove/xerces-c-devel.sh I found several of the scripts I wrote had embedded CRs. I'm an old Unix hand, so I am really baffled how they got into my scripts. Plus, I always found vim would display the CRs as ^M. To my dismay I now discover the vim silently ignores CR when its part of CR-LF pair, unlike LF-CR. So, I have subscribed to cygwin and cygwin-announce. I am hopeful I will not be surprised again. -- Larry Breyer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken
What changed from bash 3.1.17 to 3.1.18 ? I blindly performed a cygwin update, rebooted, and attempted startx. X came up OK but the terminals would not respond to keyboard input. Looking at the output of startx it became apparent something was seriously wrong with /bin/sh (/bin/bash). I got syntax errors on blank lines. I also found, by adding little debugging stuff, like 'ls $XAPPLRESDIR', that the shell was quoting env variables. I was getting no such file or directory on valid paths because the shell was including single quotes around the path. At least that's what it looked like. Really odd. I solved the problem by reverting to bash 3.1.17. -- Larry Breyer UCSD Computer Science (858) 822-4990 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
