Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.0.1

2019-05-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 28.05.2019 um 20:16 schrieb René Berber: On 5/28/2019 12:29 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: I have uploaded mintty 3.0.1 with the following changes: Scroll bar now appears on the right side, its configured to be on the left... and there is no way to change it back to the left, only no scroll bar

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.0.1

2019-05-28 Thread René Berber
On 5/28/2019 12:29 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > I have uploaded mintty 3.0.1 with the following changes: Scroll bar now appears on the right side, its configured to be on the left... and there is no way to change it back to the left, only no scroll bar works (other than right s.b.) if you

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.0.1

2019-05-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 3.0.1 with the following changes: Highlights   * New character attributes superscript, subscript, shadowed, overstrike.   * DEC VT420 screen control features.   * Fully VT100-compatible, including VT52 mode (with graphics).   * Up to 6 key modifiers, including Meta (Win

Updated: mintty 3.0.1

2019-05-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 3.0.1 with the following changes: Highlights   * New character attributes superscript, subscript, shadowed, overstrike.   * DEC VT420 screen control features.   * Fully VT100-compatible, including VT52 mode (with graphics).   * Up to 6 key modifiers, including Meta (Win

Re: copy and paste on mintty are strange for lines containing wide width characters after 2.9.7

2019-03-29 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
- Original Message - > From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA  > To: cygwi > Cc: > Date: 2019/3/17, Sun 13:56 > Subject: copy and paste on mintty are strange for lines containing wide width > characters after 2.9.7 > > After 2.9.7, > > > copy and paste on mintty

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.0.0

2019-03-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 3.0.0 with the following changes: Character processing   * Fixed wide character width and cursor position handling. Keyboard handling   * Switchable auto-repeat; DECSET 8 (DECARM), option AutoRepeat, toggle function. Bidirectional rendering (Unicode Bidi Algorithm

Updated: mintty 3.0.0

2019-03-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 3.0.0 with the following changes: Character processing   * Fixed wide character width and cursor position handling. Keyboard handling   * Switchable auto-repeat; DECSET 8 (DECARM), option AutoRepeat, toggle function. Bidirectional rendering (Unicode Bidi Algorithm

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Steven Penny
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 22:33:48, Thomas Wolff wrote: It's a bit strange that you're telling my that *you* don't care about *my* information. I'm trying to raise some awareness about privacy on this occasion (which is quite a topic nowadays) and if you don't care, you don't need to comment. Yeah,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 28.03.2019 um 20:47 schrieb Achim Gratz: Thomas Wolff writes: I do not like the dual chaos of manual vs info pages, and I'm maybe a bit old-fashioned to insist that manual pages should be complete, but isn't that their purpose? You are barking up the wrong tree, but if you're that bothered

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
. And what I was pointing out is that nobody but you needs to. This whole thread is about trying to solve *your* problem, not someone else's. As I said, if I built mintty, I would just use cygport and be done with it. I don't care about user information, because I'm not distributing the package

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > I do not like the dual chaos of manual vs info pages, and I'm maybe a > bit old-fashioned to insist that manual pages should be complete, but > isn't that their purpose? You are barking up the wrong tree, but if you're that bothered by it, you can file an RFE or bug report

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Vince Rice
t; neither of those >> objections are really a problem.) > What I wanted to point out with my last objection is that some people may not > be able to create an account as they like, in an enterprise environment. And what I was pointing out is that nobody but you needs to. This whole thread is

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 28.03.2019 um 19:16 schrieb Vince Rice: On Mar 28, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: A potential solution is, add another user to your system named cygwin. When you build you packages use the cygwin user. The debug information will reference your cygwin user, and not your real user

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 28.03.2019 um 19:21 schrieb Achim Gratz: Thomas Wolff writes: In fact that seems to work, although there is no TAR_OPTIONS documented in the manual page. The already much too long manual page does tell you to consult the info manual right at the top, does it not? I do not like the dual

Dependancy Hell (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9)

2019-03-28 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2019-03-28 7:36 am, Steven Penny wrote: On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:34:34, Thomas Wolff wrote: Mintty can be used to run any command-line application directly (like top, your editor, ...), a shell is not needed. That may be true, the by default Mintty is configure to load Bash. So

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > In fact that seems to work, although there is no TAR_OPTIONS > documented in the manual page. The already much too long manual page does tell you to consult the info manual right at the top, does it not? Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Vince Rice
> On Mar 28, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >> A potential solution is, add another user to your system named cygwin. >> When you build you packages use the cygwin user. The debug information >> will reference your cygwin user, and not your real user account. > Thanks for the suggestion,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 28.03.2019 um 15:02 schrieb Jeffrey Walton: On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 4:44 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: ... Björn Stabel wrote: On 27/03/2019 23:59, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 21:02 +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: I used to use tar rather than cygport package to generate the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 28.03.2019 um 18:40 schrieb Achim Gratz: Björn Stabel writes: Sorry for commenting from the peanut gallery, but his problem may be that he doesn't want to disclose his user name to anyone nosy enough to snoop around in the package files. Not tested, but something like env

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Björn Stabel writes: > Sorry for commenting from the peanut gallery, but his problem may be > that he doesn't want to disclose his user name to anyone nosy enough to > snoop around in the package files. Not tested, but something like env TAR_OPTIONS="--user=0 --group=0" cygport ... should do

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > Mintty can be used to run any command-line application directly (like > top, your editor, ...), a shell is not needed. Your _package_ has a dependency to the shell by way of including a shell script. If you so desperately want to get rid of it (even though it's

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-03-28 05:36, Steven Penny wrote: > On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:34:34, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Mintty can be used to run any command-line application directly (like top, >> your editor, ...), a shell is not needed. > > That may be true, the by default Mintty is confi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 4:44 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: > ... > Björn Stabel wrote: > > On 27/03/2019 23:59, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > >> On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 21:02 +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >>> I used to use tar rather than cygport package to generate the packages. > >>> One reason was that I

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Steven Penny
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:34:34, Thomas Wolff wrote: Mintty can be used to run any command-line application directly (like top, your editor, ...), a shell is not needed. That may be true, the by default Mintty is configure to load Bash. So it is disingenuous so simply say that it does not require

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
he "release" repository was only a fallback rescue setting, > because due to github's strange URL scheme, the working download URL would > confuse cygport. If your repo is on github anyway it would be much simpler to define the source as a git repo. Rather than SRC_URI, just use

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
ring to the "release" repository was only a fallback rescue setting, because due to github's strange URL scheme, the working download URL would confuse cygport. from the release area, and not from the separate “release” repository, unfortunately it’s github URL does not include the “mintty-”

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
are installed. ...  "some shell should be a dep". Mintty can be used to run any command-line application directly (like top, your editor, ...), a shell is not needed. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Björn Stabel
On 27/03/2019 23:59, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 21:02 +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> I used to use tar rather than cygport package to generate the packages. >> One reason was that I didn’t want my local user/group to appear in them. > They won't show up like that once

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Steven Penny
On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 20:44:44, Brian Inglis wrote: Both dash and bash are in Base, installed by default, and both are login shells, while dash requires only cygwin1.dll to run, and can be used during setup, before other libraries or utilities are installed. Yeah, I did not mean to say login

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-03-27 19:12, Steven Penny wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:09:07, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >> "Only" if /bin/bash is your preferred shell.  Granted, that's the >> default, and what most users would want anyway, but that is not >> strictly speaking a mintty de

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 18:12 -0700, Steven Penny wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:09:07, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > "Only" if /bin/bash is your preferred shell. Granted, that's the > > default, and what most users would want anyway, but that is not > > strictly spea

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Steven Penny
On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:09:07, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: "Only" if /bin/bash is your preferred shell. Granted, that's the default, and what most users would want anyway, but that is not strictly speaking a mintty dependency. As I mentioned in my response, the auto-detected dependen

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 15:51 -0700, Steven Penny wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:02:47, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > >>> mintty requires: bash cygwin > > I remember some discussion that the cygwin dependency, which most > > packages have, should not (or does not need

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
> cygport refer to this if the package is locally available?) from the > release area, and not from the separate “release” repository, > unfortunately it’s github URL does not include the “mintty-” prefix > (it’s just 2.9.9.tar.gz) which causes the source package generated by > cygp

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Steven Penny
On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:02:47, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>> mintty requires: bash cygwin I remember some discussion that the cygwin dependency, which most packages have, should not (or does not need to be) listed. And in fact, mintty does not depend on bash. Why does cygport think so? U

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 4:36 PM Achim Gratz wrote: > ... > > I removed -s as suggested by Achim, added -g as advised by Corinna, > > but cygport still says: > > *** Info: No debug files, skipping debuginfo subpackage > > Well, do not reset CFLAGS in your Makefile and cygport helpfully > provides

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Achim Gratz
is locally available?) It's generally considered bad form to provide a cygport file that doesn't work standalone and the SRC_URI you provided only got me a 404. > from the release area, and not from the separate “release” repository, > unfortunately it’s github URL does not include the “m

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Thomas Wolff
he package is locally available?) from the release area, and not from the separate “release” repository, unfortunately it’s github URL does not include the “mintty-” prefix (it’s just 2.9.9.tar.gz) which causes the source package generated by cygport to be empty: >>> Creating sou

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > Sorry, I neither know how to make use of such a package nor how to > generate it or what it contains. > But I'd take a patch:) As you wish… mintty.cygport Description: Binary data --- origsrc/mintty-2.9.9/src/Makefile 2019-03-16 07:13:38.0 +0100 +++ s

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 25 00:36, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Am 24.03.2019 um 19:19 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > > On Mar 24 16:57, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > Hi Achim, > > > > > > Am 16.03.2019 um 15:00 schrieb Achim Gratz: > > > > Thoma

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-24 Thread Thomas Wolff
Hi Corinna, Am 24.03.2019 um 19:19 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Mar 24 16:57, Thomas Wolff wrote: Hi Achim, Am 16.03.2019 um 15:00 schrieb Achim Gratz: Thomas Wolff writes: I have uploaded mintty 2.9.9 with the following changes: While you're at it, could you please stop using the release

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-24 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Wolff! > Am 16.03.2019 um 15:00 schrieb Achim Gratz: >> Thomas Wolff writes: >>> I have uploaded mintty 2.9.9 with the following changes: >> While you're at it, could you please stop using the release number "0" for >> your packages?

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 24 16:57, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Hi Achim, > > Am 16.03.2019 um 15:00 schrieb Achim Gratz: > > Thomas Wolff writes: > > > I have uploaded mintty 2.9.9 with the following changes: > > While you're at it, could you please stop using the release number "

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-24 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-03-24 09:57, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 16.03.2019 um 15:00 schrieb Achim Gratz: >> Thomas Wolff writes: >>> I have uploaded mintty 2.9.9 with the following changes: >> While you're at it, could you please stop using the release number "0" for >> you

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-24 Thread Thomas Wolff
Hi Achim, Am 16.03.2019 um 15:00 schrieb Achim Gratz: Thomas Wolff writes: I have uploaded mintty 2.9.9 with the following changes: While you're at it, could you please stop using the release number "0" for your packages? I had previously explained why I used to like this (nati

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-24 Thread Steven Penny
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 15:00:54, Achim Gratz wrote: Thomas Wolff writes: I have uploaded mintty 2.9.9 with the following changes: While you're at it, could you please stop using the release number "0" for your packages? That's supposed to be used for test packages only (if you wa

Re: copy and paste on mintty are strange for lines containing wide width characters after 2.9.7

2019-03-17 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 17.03.2019 um 06:24 schrieb Takashi Yano: On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:56:40 +0900 (JST) Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: After 2.9.7, copy and paste on mintty are strange for lines containing wide width characters (e.g. Japanese Kanji). Also the cursor position is strange on wide characters

Re: copy and paste on mintty are strange for lines containing wide width characters after 2.9.7

2019-03-16 Thread Takashi Yano
On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:56:40 +0900 (JST) Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: > After 2.9.7, > copy and paste on mintty are strange for lines containing wide width > characters > (e.g. Japanese Kanji). Also the cursor position is strange on wide characters. It is at the position as if the cha

copy and paste on mintty are strange for lines containing wide width characters after 2.9.7

2019-03-16 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
After 2.9.7, copy and paste on mintty are strange for lines containing wide width characters (e.g. Japanese Kanji). -rw---  1 MATSUOKA LAB なし   180 3月  30  2018 .serverauth.12420 Copy 180 and paste it to notepad. It become 0 3. Tatsuro -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > I have uploaded mintty 2.9.9 with the following changes: While you're at it, could you please stop using the release number "0" for your packages? That's supposed to be used for test packages only (if you want to make an effort to convey that in the pack

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-16 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.9.9 with the following changes: Keyboard handling   * Fixed modifyOtherKeys mode 1 to use verbatim control keys. The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/ It also links to the issue tracker. -- Thomas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-16 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.9.9 with the following changes: Keyboard handling   * Fixed modifyOtherKeys mode 1 to use verbatim control keys. The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/ It also links to the issue tracker. -- Thomas

Updated: mintty 2.9.8

2019-03-15 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.9.8 with the following changes: Unicode and Emoji data   * Unicode 12.0 update. Keyboard handling   * Fixed control-key reporting in modifyOtherKeys mode to use small letters. The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/ It also links to the issue tracker

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.8

2019-03-15 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.9.8 with the following changes: Unicode and Emoji data   * Unicode 12.0 update. Keyboard handling   * Fixed control-key reporting in modifyOtherKeys mode to use small letters. The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/ It also links to the issue tracker

Updated: mintty 2.9.7

2019-03-14 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.9.7 with the following changes: Highlights (details see below)   * Significant improvements in bidirectional handling.   * Text can be selected with the keyboard.   * Explicit hyperlink attributes.   * Avoid keyboard/echo latency. Bidirectional rendering   * Fixed

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.7

2019-03-14 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.9.7 with the following changes: Highlights (details see below)   * Significant improvements in bidirectional handling.   * Text can be selected with the keyboard.   * Explicit hyperlink attributes.   * Avoid keyboard/echo latency. Bidirectional rendering   * Fixed

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.6

2019-01-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.9.6 with the following changes: Terminal features   * Fixed bidi "run" handling (~#837).   * Fixed bidi embedding handling (#837).   * HTML export/copy: Fixed HTML style attributes. Window handling   * Flexible window grouping configuration (#789).   * If st

Updated: mintty 2.9.6

2019-01-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.9.6 with the following changes: Terminal features   * Fixed bidi "run" handling (~#837).   * Fixed bidi embedding handling (#837).   * HTML export/copy: Fixed HTML style attributes. Window handling   * Flexible window grouping configuration (#789).   * If st

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > Tweaks to HTML clipboard/export feature >   * Flexible HTML formatting levels. >   * Configurable, also in Options dialog. >   * No more table cell container. >   * HTML escaping. >   * Apply styles individually and other tweaks for increased compatibility. >   * Font

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
? You have apparently set up some cmd scripts as mintty user commands, so you're thinking in Windows terms here. One is very distantly related to another. I set up programs to work as user commands, it's not actually relevant, if they are cmd scripts, or perl, both, or neither. Acknowledged

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-10 Thread Andrey Repin
? > You have apparently set up some cmd scripts as mintty user commands, so > you're thinking in Windows terms here. One is very distantly related to another. I set up programs to work as user commands, it's not actually relevant, if they are cmd scripts, or perl, both, or neither. &g

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
of knowledge. BTW, Cygwin itself does it differently. %Cygwin%\bin is converted to /usr/bin. This setup should be handled in the Posix path domain. Give me a good reason why should you second-guess Cygwin's own functionality? You have apparently set up some cmd scripts as mintty user commands, so

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Wolff! > Am 07.12.2018 um 22:41 schrieb Andrey Repin: >> Greetings, Thomas Wolff! >> >>> Am 06.12.2018 um 22:32 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Achim Gratz! > a) Just warn about the missing PATH component without changing the PATH. > b) Give the user an option

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 07.12.2018 um 22:41 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! Am 06.12.2018 um 22:32 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Achim Gratz! a) Just warn about the missing PATH component without changing the PATH. b) Give the user an option to let the command run with a separate PATH. Indeed

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Wolff! > Am 06.12.2018 um 22:32 schrieb Andrey Repin: >> Greetings, Achim Gratz! >> >>> a) Just warn about the missing PATH component without changing the PATH. >>> b) Give the user an option to let the command run with a separate PATH. >>> Indeed there might be other things

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-07 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 06.12.2018 um 22:32 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Achim Gratz! a) Just warn about the missing PATH component without changing the PATH. b) Give the user an option to let the command run with a separate PATH. Indeed there might be other things that are missing in the environment, so

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-07 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-12-06 12:39, Achim Gratz wrote: > Thomas Wolff writes: >> Am 05.12.2018 um 21:21 schrieb Achim Gratz: >>> Thomas Wolff writes: Ensuring /bin in PATH for user commands. >>> Blindly prepending /bin to the existing PATH is asking for trouble with >>> certain setups. Many setups: my

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-06 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Achim Gratz! > a) Just warn about the missing PATH component without changing the PATH. > b) Give the user an option to let the command run with a separate PATH. > Indeed there might be other things that are missing in the environment, > so instead of just fixing up PATH you might

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > Am 05.12.2018 um 21:21 schrieb Achim Gratz: >> Thomas Wolff writes: >>> Other >>>   * Ensuring /bin in PATH for user commands. >> Blindly prepending /bin to the existing PATH is asking for trouble with >> certain setups. > Just to clarify, this is only applicable to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-06 Thread cyg Simple
regular %PATH% at the place I want it. I.e. when using tools and commands, I expect them to behave in a certain way. Changing it have potential to produce unexpected results. The issue that caused me to apply this change: if you start mintty from a desktop shortcut, cygwin /bin is not in the PATH

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-05 Thread Thomas Wolff
. when using tools and commands, I expect them to behave in a certain way. Changing it have potential to produce unexpected results. The issue that caused me to apply this change: if you start mintty from a desktop shortcut, cygwin /bin is not in the PATH of mintty (unless you would set

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Wolff! > Am 05.12.2018 um 21:21 schrieb Achim Gratz: >> Thomas Wolff writes: >>> Other >>>   * Ensuring /bin in PATH for user commands. >> Blindly prepending /bin to the existing PATH is asking for trouble with >> certain setups. > Just to clarify, this is only applicable to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-05 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 05.12.2018 um 21:21 schrieb Achim Gratz: Thomas Wolff writes: Other   * Ensuring /bin in PATH for user commands. Blindly prepending /bin to the existing PATH is asking for trouble with certain setups. Just to clarify, this is only applicable to user-defined commands added to the extended

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > Other >   * Ensuring /bin in PATH for user commands. Blindly prepending /bin to the existing PATH is asking for trouble with certain setups. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Waldorf MIDI Implementation & additional

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-05 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.9.5 with the following changes: Window handling   * Fixed startup directory after cloning new window after starting from desktop shortcut (#784, mintty/wsltty#96).   * Avoiding stale hover indication in unfocussed window.   * Changed default handling of resolution

Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-05 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.9.5 with the following changes: Window handling   * Fixed startup directory after cloning new window after starting from desktop shortcut (#784, mintty/wsltty#96).   * Avoiding stale hover indication in unfocussed window.   * Changed default handling of resolution

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ? (2)

2018-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 1 09:57, Houder wrote: > On 2018-11-30 14:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > [snip] > > > I'm trying to avoid remote debugging so I rather try to reproduce this > > @work. However, if you're interested in debugging this, set a > > breakpoint to clk_monotonic_t::now() and observe how the call

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ? (2)

2018-12-01 Thread Houder
On 2018-11-30 14:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] I'm trying to avoid remote debugging so I rather try to reproduce this @work. However, if you're interested in debugging this, set a breakpoint to clk_monotonic_t::now() and observe how the call to the virtual init() method hangs or crashes.

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ?

2018-12-01 Thread Houder
On 2018-12-01 04:18, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2018-11-30 01:33, Houder wrote: [snip] Now I know, there should be an "GdiPlus.dll" in "system32". Alas, I have no idea how to recover it (and neither does Microsoft). Thanks for the feedback, Brian. You should have a selection of alternatives

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ?

2018-11-30 Thread Brian Inglis
tem32, because there is a version of this > file in the "SxS" location. > One of my previous posts shows the output of strace (trying to start > MinTTY from a "Dos box" ...) > Although comctl32.dll is present in c:/Windows/system32, the file in > the "Sx

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ?

2018-11-30 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Houder! > Btw, I do not think that the "loss of GdiPlus.dll" on my system explains > why > I cannot start MinTTY with Corinna's latest cygwin1.dll ... > I believe something else is preventing the launch of MinTTY using the > latest > cygwin1.dll ... I

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ? (2)

2018-11-30 Thread Houder
nclear *when* and *why* it happens. > > It only occurs if mintty is the first process in a process tree. I.e., > when starting mintty from a shell running in a DOS window, the problem > disappears. > > Worse, the problem also disappears when running mintty under gdb. (I do not

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ? (2)

2018-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
12 loaded C:\Windows\System32\winspool.drv at > > > 07fef9f1 > > > --- Process 3112, exception c005 at 000180044bb3 > > > --- Process 3112 exited with status 0xc005 > > > Segmentation fault > > > > I can reproduce this but while it's clear *where* i

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ? (2)

2018-11-30 Thread Houder
--- Process 3112 exited with status 0xc005 Segmentation fault I can reproduce this but while it's clear *where* it happens, it's unclear *when* and *why* it happens. It only occurs if mintty is the first process in a process tree. I.e., when starting mintty from a shell running in a DOS

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ? (2)

2018-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
box" results in a > > > prompt from bash. > > > > > > Once in bash, I can launch MinTTY ( 64-@@ /usr/bin/mintty ) > > > > > > Placing strace in front of this call, results in: > > > > > > 64-@@ strace /usr/bin/mintty > > &

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ?

2018-11-30 Thread Houder
On 2018-11-30 11:21, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Houder! [snip] Apparently MinTTY requires this DLL. Q: Should my system (Windows 7) have this DLL? (Is it present on your system?) Yes. It is located in WinSxS, as many other versioned DLL's. I.e. on my system, MinTTY loading C

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ?

2018-11-30 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Houder! > Because I have a problem w/ Corinna's latest snapshot (using > MinTTY!), I executed (among others): > 64-@@ cygcheck mintty > ... >C:\Windows\system32\WINSPOOL.DRV > cygcheck: track_down: could not find gdiplus.dll > None of the individual DLL's

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ?

2018-11-30 Thread Houder
he "SxS" location. One of my previous posts shows the output of strace (trying to start MinTTY from a "Dos box" ...) Although comctl32.dll is present in c:/Windows/system32, the file in the "SxS" location is "loaded", not the file available in the former.

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ?

2018-11-30 Thread Michael Wild
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 11:24 PM Houder wrote: > On 2018-11-29 20:53, Michael Wild wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, 19:14 Houder wrote: > [snip] > > >> Apparently MinTTY requires this DLL. > >> > >> Q: Should my system (Windows 7) have this DLL? (Is it

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ? (2)

2018-11-29 Thread Houder
On 2018-11-29 23:11, Thomas Wolff wrote: On Nov 29 19:41, Houder wrote: [snip] Placing strace in front of this call, results in: 64-@@ strace /usr/bin/mintty --- Process 3112 created --- Process 3112 loaded C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll at 777b ... --- Process 3112 loaded C

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ? (2)

2018-11-29 Thread Houder
On 2018-11-29 23:11, Thomas Wolff wrote: On Nov 29 19:41, Houder wrote: [snip] Placing strace in front of this call, results in: 64-@@ strace /usr/bin/mintty --- Process 3112 created --- Process 3112 loaded C:\Windows\System32\ntdll.dll at 777b ... --- Process 3112 loaded C

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ?

2018-11-29 Thread Houder
On 2018-11-29 20:53, Michael Wild wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, 19:14 Houder wrote: [snip] Apparently MinTTY requires this DLL. Q: Should my system (Windows 7) have this DLL? (Is it present on your system?) [snip] Hi GDI+ is a graphics and font rendering engine that has been part

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ? (2)

2018-11-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 29.11.2018 um 20:58 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Nov 29 19:41, Houder wrote: Hi, As I wrote in the preceding post ... Using Corinna's latest snapshot in a "Dos box" results in a prompt from bash. Once in bash, I can launch MinTTY ( 64-@@ /usr/bin/mintty ) Placing strac

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ? (2)

2018-11-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 29 19:41, Houder wrote: > Hi, > > As I wrote in the preceding post ... > > Using Corinna's latest snapshot in a "Dos box" results in a > prompt from bash. > > Once in bash, I can launch MinTTY ( 64-@@ /usr/bin/mintty ) > > Placing strace in

Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ?

2018-11-29 Thread Michael Wild
On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, 19:14 Houder wrote: > Hi, > > Because I have a problem w/ Corinna's latest snapshot (using > MinTTY!), I executed (among others): > > 64-@@ cygcheck mintty > ... >C:\Windows\system32\WINSPOOL.DRV > cygcheck: track_down: could no

MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ? (2)

2018-11-29 Thread Houder
Hi, As I wrote in the preceding post ... Using Corinna's latest snapshot in a "Dos box" results in a prompt from bash. Once in bash, I can launch MinTTY ( 64-@@ /usr/bin/mintty ) Placing strace in front of this call, results in: 64-@@ strace /usr/bin/mintty --- Process 31

MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ?

2018-11-29 Thread Houder
Hi, Because I have a problem w/ Corinna's latest snapshot (using MinTTY!), I executed (among others): 64-@@ cygcheck mintty ... C:\Windows\system32\WINSPOOL.DRV cygcheck: track_down: could not find gdiplus.dll None of the individual DLL's from "cygcheck mintty" requires the g

Re: mintty slow refresh rate over RDP

2018-11-27 Thread David Dombrowsky
dows 7 in a VM 2) use rdesktop (ubuntu xenial, rdesktop Version 1.8.3) to connect to the windows box's desktop (used to run visual studio, etc.) 3) launch mintty, maximize the window 4) run a build that spits out a lot of logging. This can be simulated with "od /dev/urandom". On my machine

Re: mintty slow refresh rate over RDP

2018-11-27 Thread R0b0t1
lines. > VT100 smooth scroll with No Scroll key toggle was like having more/less built > in > to the terminal; VT52 had a Scroll key which supported something similar. > > > Mintty does not support smooth scrolling. (I gave it a try once but there > > is no > >

mintty slow refresh rate over RDP

2018-11-27 Thread Brian Inglis
ough remote interface. Glass ttys needed special hardware because the early uP chips running at low speeds with small ROMs could not do much between displaying lines. VT100 smooth scroll with No Scroll key toggle was like having more/less built in to the terminal; VT52 had a Scroll key which supported

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