Re: Resize a Cygwin64 xterm on Windows 7 64-bit jumps in increments of two or three columns

2014-07-31 Thread Jon TURNEY

On 30/07/2014 19:04, C Linus Hicks wrote:

I have run Cygwin on multiple versions of Windows including recently on
Windows XP and don't think I ever had this problem. Resizing or
specifying a geometry always resulted in the exact number of columns
requested, with increments of 1 column being available when dragging the
borders of a window to resize.

Now, after upgrading to Windows 7 64-bit, I cannot get the window to
have 80 columns on resize. It jumps in increments of two or three,
depending on the number of columns prior to resizing. For example:


Thanks for reporting this problem.

I think this may be resolved by a fix Correctly interpret WM_HINTS, 
WM_NORMAL_HINTS properties on x86_64 I made in 1.15.1-3 [1].  Can you 
please test with the latest version?



Should I be able to resize by increments of one column?


Yes

[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-06/msg00017.html

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Re: Resize a Cygwin64 xterm on Windows 7 64-bit jumps in increments of two or three columns

2014-07-31 Thread C Linus Hicks
On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 12:45 +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
 On 30/07/2014 19:04, C Linus Hicks wrote:
  I have run Cygwin on multiple versions of Windows including recently on
  Windows XP and don't think I ever had this problem. Resizing or
  specifying a geometry always resulted in the exact number of columns
  requested, with increments of 1 column being available when dragging the
  borders of a window to resize.
 
  Now, after upgrading to Windows 7 64-bit, I cannot get the window to
  have 80 columns on resize. It jumps in increments of two or three,
  depending on the number of columns prior to resizing. For example:
 
 Thanks for reporting this problem.
 
 I think this may be resolved by a fix Correctly interpret WM_HINTS, 
 WM_NORMAL_HINTS properties on x86_64 I made in 1.15.1-3 [1].  Can you 
 please test with the latest version?
 
  Should I be able to resize by increments of one column?
 
 Yes

Yes, I will try that within the next day or so. Thanks.



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