Re: Add support for xterm/rxvt style text selection and inserting to mintty? (was Re: Cygwin alongside WSL)

2017-11-15 Thread Brian Inglis
rtual Tabs endeavours, release frequency >> should become lower now. > Speaking of silly feature requests ... > The main reason I'm not a fan of mintty (and as a result haven't switched to > cygwin64 on my primary Windows machine -  because it doesn't include the > non-Xwindows versio

Add support for xterm/rxvt style text selection and inserting to mintty? (was Re: Cygwin alongside WSL)

2017-11-15 Thread qrasmfu8f4
feature requests ... The main reason I'm not a fan of mintty (and as a result haven't switched to cygwin64 on my primary Windows machine -  because it doesn't include the non-Xwindows version of rxvt) is that it behaves different than xterm/rxvt for copying/pasting text.  I spend most of my time

Re: Mintty Crash on Exit after SSH on Windows 10

2017-11-03 Thread Rick Maus
I am experiencing a similar situation on a recently reimaged Windows 10 computer in a large corporate environment, namely: * Either typing "exit" or clicking the Windows close [X] button from a Cygwin bash terminal (mintty under the hood) results in the process hanging with it either

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.8.1

2017-10-30 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.8.1 with the following changes: Character display   * Option Charwidth for built-in Unicode width or ambiguous wide mode (#88, #671). Window and session control   * Virtual Tabs: additional SessionGeomSync levels (#699).   * Window icons can optionally be shown

Updated: mintty 2.8.1

2017-10-30 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.8.1 with the following changes: Character display   * Option Charwidth for built-in Unicode width or ambiguous wide mode (#88, #671). Window and session control   * Virtual Tabs: additional SessionGeomSync levels (#699).   * Window icons can optionally be shown

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.8.0

2017-10-22 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.8.0 with the following changes. This release features 3 major enhancements:   * Virtual Tabs feature set, including a session switcher and launcher   * filled gaps in DEC terminal support up to VT300 series level   * simplified WSL integration Details: Window

Re: Strange bug with /dev/console in mintty

2017-08-29 Thread Erik Bray
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 23 10:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Aug 22 18:49, Erik Bray wrote: >> > Hi folks, >> > >> > I noticed a strange discrepancy when running Cygwin through mintty, vs >> > through a nor

Re: Strange bug with /dev/console in mintty

2017-08-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 23 10:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 22 18:49, Erik Bray wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I noticed a strange discrepancy when running Cygwin through mintty, vs > > through a normal cmd.exe console. This is on a build from the latest > > git master, bu

Re: Strange bug with /dev/console in mintty

2017-08-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 22 18:49, Erik Bray wrote: > Hi folks, > > I noticed a strange discrepancy when running Cygwin through mintty, vs > through a normal cmd.exe console. This is on a build from the latest > git master, but also on Cygwin 2.8.0. When run from a cmd.exe > console, we can

Re: Strange bug with /dev/console in mintty

2017-08-22 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 22.08.2017 um 18:49 schrieb Erik Bray: Hi folks, I noticed a strange discrepancy when running Cygwin through mintty, vs through a normal cmd.exe console. This is on a build from the latest git master, but also on Cygwin 2.8.0. When run from a cmd.exe console, we can see the following

Strange bug with /dev/console in mintty

2017-08-22 Thread Erik Bray
Hi folks, I noticed a strange discrepancy when running Cygwin through mintty, vs through a normal cmd.exe console. This is on a build from the latest git master, but also on Cygwin 2.8.0. When run from a cmd.exe console, we can see the following output from fhandler_dev::readdir: $ ls -l /dev

Re: Does mintty allow keyboard navigation / search and text selection?

2017-08-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 10.08.2017 um 16:09 schrieb Oleksandr Gavenko: Is it possible to navigate across mintty buffer? Like in less but in line oriented move. I like to have search and copy-paste. Search: Alt+F3 Copy: click and drag mouse screen and tmux allow this but I have no practice of using them. Shift

Does mintty allow keyboard navigation / search and text selection?

2017-08-10 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko
Is it possible to navigate across mintty buffer? Like in less but in line oriented move. I like to have search and copy-paste. screen and tmux allow this but I have no practice of using them. Shift+PgUp/PgDown are too limiting. -- http://defun.work/ -- Problem reports: http

Updated: mintty 2.7.9

2017-07-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.9 with the following changes: Character display * Fixed character attribute handling in scrollback buffer. * Fixed rendering of some combining characters by heuristic tweaking. * Avoid misplaced artefacts of combining doubles while moving cursor over them

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.9

2017-07-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.9 with the following changes: Character display * Fixed character attribute handling in scrollback buffer. * Fixed rendering of some combining characters by heuristic tweaking. * Avoid misplaced artefacts of combining doubles while moving cursor over them

Re: [cygwin] Re: Weird mintty behavior - windows 10

2017-07-12 Thread Thomas Wolff
Ctrl-Tab, the window becomes dialog modal. Any ideas on how to prevent this behavior? $ mintty.exe -V mintty 2.7.7 (x86_64-pc-cygwin) There was a related fix but in 2.7.7: * Avoid being pushed behind other windows on Ctrl+TAB (#652). Please describe the issue more precisely. ... Updating

RE: [cygwin] Re: Weird mintty behavior - windows 10

2017-07-11 Thread Jason Pyeron
the terminal I hit Ctrl-Tab, the window becomes dialog modal. > > > > Any ideas on how to prevent this behavior? > > > > $ mintty.exe -V > > mintty 2.7.7 (x86_64-pc-cygwin) > There was a related fix but in 2.7.7: >* Avoid being pushed behind other windows on

Re: Weird mintty behavior - windows 10

2017-07-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 11.07.2017 um 06:43 schrieb Jason Pyeron: When launching C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - (from the start menu) And while in the terminal I hit Ctrl-Tab, the window becomes dialog modal. Any ideas on how to prevent this behavior? $ mintty.exe -V mintty 2.7.7 (x86_64-pc

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

2017-06-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: > Yes. I'll have to figure out just why it tries to set the background to > the named color "white" on startup, then. That must have got saved as > an option somewhere, maybe I can still find an old enough backup to > compare the startup files to. Indeed on the same day that

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.8

2017-06-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.8 with the following changes: Font rendering * Support for alternative fonts as selected via ECMA-48 SGR codes 11...19. * Tweaked ambiguous width checking to not expand glyphs excessively (#615). Terminal features * SGR 6 attribute "rapidly blinking"

Updated: mintty 2.7.8

2017-06-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.8 with the following changes: Font rendering * Support for alternative fonts as selected via ECMA-48 SGR codes 11...19. * Tweaked ambiguous width checking to not expand glyphs excessively (#615). Terminal features * SGR 6 attribute "rapidly blinking"

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

2017-06-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > OK, so it's not a Cygwin issue. And I just learned about M-x > list-colors-display. If you try this in emacs-nox in Mintty with > TERM=xterm-256color, you'll see that white is #e5e5e5 and brightwhite > is #ff. So I guess there's no bug here, just

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

2017-06-17 Thread Ken Brown
learned about M-x list-colors-display. If you try this in emacs-nox in Mintty with TERM=xterm-256color, you'll see that white is #e5e5e5 and brightwhite is #ff. So I guess there's no bug here, just a surprising definition of "white". Ken -- Problem reports: http://

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

2017-06-17 Thread Achim Gratz
gt; I can also reproduce the > problem in xterm, so I don't think Mintty is the culprit. I already said in my original report that I can reproduce this from my Linux box via konsole. I don't know why I didn't think of that earlier, but I just fired up emacs-nox from my Linux box and did 'M-x se

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

2017-06-17 Thread Ken Brown
reproduce the problem in xterm, so I don't think Mintty is the culprit. What about ncurses? That was updated on 2017-01-27? I haven't tried downgrading it yet, but I can probably try it later today. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

2017-06-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: >> No, it really was a Cygwin update (to 2.7.0-1). The Emacs update was >> before that and it had worked right up to that update. > > Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant by "Cygwin update". I > understand now. I'll try to do a bisection of the Cygwin sources. It > may be a

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

2017-06-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/16/2017 2:27 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: Your original report, written on February 22, said that the problem started after the latest Cygwin update. That means you would have installed emacs-25.1, if Emacs was updated at all. No, it really was a Cygwin update (to 2.7.0-1).

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

2017-06-16 Thread Achim Gratz
as before that and it had worked right up to that update. > But I've just checked that the problem already exists in emacs-24.5. > So maybe the problem was triggered by an update of some package other > than Emacs, Mintty being the most obvious guess. Can you check your > /var/log/setup.log to

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

2017-06-15 Thread Ken Brown
t checked that the problem already exists in emacs-24.5. So maybe the problem was triggered by an update of some package other than Emacs, Mintty being the most obvious guess. Can you check your /var/log/setup.log to see what was updated around February 22? Ken -- Problem reports: http://

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

2017-06-15 Thread Achim Gratz
round-color "#F8F8F8"). The background > stayed gray. That's most likely a result of your terminal not being recognized as being able to use 256 colors. > I need to investigate 3 and 4, but first I'd like to understand why > you and I are seeing different things. One di

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

2017-06-15 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-06-15 07:35, Ken Brown wrote: > On 6/15/2017 6:47 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 6/14/2017 3:00 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: >>> Achim Gratz writes: >>>> After the latest Cygwin update I'm hitting an interesting problem with >>>> emacs-nox running

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

2017-06-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/15/2017 6:47 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/14/2017 3:00 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Achim Gratz writes: After the latest Cygwin update I'm hitting an interesting problem with emacs-nox running in a mintty: when Emacs starts, it decides that the background color is gray instead of the usual white

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

2017-06-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/14/2017 3:00 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Achim Gratz writes: After the latest Cygwin update I'm hitting an interesting problem with emacs-nox running in a mintty: when Emacs starts, it decides that the background color is gray instead of the usual white (for all but the rightmost character

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

2017-06-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: > After the latest Cygwin update I'm hitting an interesting problem with > emacs-nox running in a mintty: when Emacs starts, it decides that the > background color is gray instead of the usual white (for all but the > rightmost character in the status line, interest

Re: Mintty does not close after "exit" command

2017-05-25 Thread Sky Diver
tion of a second, then the terminal > becomes empty (without text), but the mintty window remains visible > but unresponsive, with the title bar showing "~ (Not Responding)". I've seen this happen several times in the past few days. This may be related to the fact that I'm inst

Re: Mintty does not close after "exit" command

2017-05-24 Thread Dani Moncayo
> Anything suspicious in logout script? I don't think so. Until now, I didn't even know about such a script (I guess it's "/etc/bash.bash_logout"). Thanks anyway. -- Dani Moncayo -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Mintty does not close after "exit" command

2017-05-24 Thread Andrey Repin
by double-clicking the desktop icon), an then type the "exit" command > in the bash shell. > I see a "logout" message for a fraction of a second, then the terminal > becomes empty (without text), but the mintty window remains visible > but unresponsive, with the

Mintty does not close after "exit" command

2017-05-24 Thread Dani Moncayo
the "exit" command in the bash shell. I see a "logout" message for a fraction of a second, then the terminal becomes empty (without text), but the mintty window remains visible but unresponsive, with the title bar showing "~ (Not Responding)". -- Dani Moncayo

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.7

2017-05-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.7 with the following changes: Font rendering and display handling * Automatically disabling Uniscribe for ASCII-only chunks (mintty/wsltty#36). * Fixed bidi display while showing other screen with Bidi=1 (#592, ~#392, ~#605). Window handling * Avoid being

Updated: mintty 2.7.7

2017-05-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.7 with the following changes: Font rendering and display handling * Automatically disabling Uniscribe for ASCII-only chunks (mintty/wsltty#36). * Fixed bidi display while showing other screen with Bidi=1 (#592, ~#392, ~#605). Window handling * Avoid being

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.6

2017-04-13 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.6 with the following changes: Font rendering and Screen handling * Supporting cell overhang of italics (#418, #152, #638). * Manual underline adds less thickness in bold mode (#641). * Consistent search highlighting while scrolling (#85). Bidirectional rendering

Updated: mintty 2.7.6

2017-04-13 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.6 with the following changes: Font rendering and Screen handling * Supporting cell overhang of italics (#418, #152, #638). * Manual underline adds less thickness in bold mode (#641). * Consistent search highlighting while scrolling (#85). Bidirectional rendering

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.5

2017-03-11 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.5. Highlights: Font handling / Text rendering * Changing default FontRender=uniscribe. * Several special character rendering improvements. Terminal * Fixed Wraparound and Backspace compliance with xterm and terminfo. * Changed Reverse Wraparound default

Updated: mintty 2.7.5

2017-03-11 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.5. Highlights: Font handling / Text rendering * Changing default FontRender=uniscribe. * Several special character rendering improvements. Terminal * Fixed Wraparound and Backspace compliance with xterm and terminfo. * Changed Reverse Wraparound default

Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

2017-02-22 Thread Achim Gratz
After the latest Cygwin update I'm hitting an interesting problem with emacs-nox running in a mintty: when Emacs starts, it decides that the background color is gray instead of the usual white (for all but the rightmost character in the status line, interestingly enough). I have the normal mintty

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 09.02.2017 um 20:41 schrieb Achim Gratz: Thomas Wolff writes: The man page speaks about speculative local echo which sounds like asking for trouble... It is indispensable when you have a long-latency link. Anyway, I could reproduce effects as you described with mintty – tmux – mosh

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > The man page speaks about speculative local echo which sounds like > asking for trouble... It is indispensable when you have a long-latency link. > Anyway, I could reproduce effects as you described with > mintty – tmux – mosh localhost (no additional s

Re: diagnostic character info (Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4)

2017-02-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 07.02.2017 um 22:00 schrieb Thomas Wolff: Am 07.02.2017 um 08:30 schrieb Brian Inglis: On 2017-02-06 12:46, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 05.02.2017 um 21:36 schrieb Brian Inglis: It may also be useful if mintty had some character hex value box display mode switch to display the actual codes

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-09 Thread Thomas Wolff
about the setting of Wraparound modes. That will take a while. I'll have to set up something at home specifically with the goal of reproducing the error. At the moment it looks like some sort of race between decisions made at different levels of the stack mintty / tmux / mosh / screen since so

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-08 Thread Thomas Wolff
. That will take a while. I'll have to set up something at home specifically with the goal of reproducing the error. At the moment it looks like some sort of race between decisions made at different levels of the stack mintty / tmux / mosh / screen since so far I've not been able to reproduce if I take

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-08 Thread Achim Gratz
ve to set up something at home specifically with the goal of reproducing the error. At the moment it looks like some sort of race between decisions made at different levels of the stack mintty / tmux / mosh / screen since so far I've not been able to reproduce if I take out one of these. Are earl

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-07 Thread Brian Inglis
7:13 schrieb Achim Gratz: >>>>>> Thomas Wolff writes: >>>>>>> I have uploaded mintty 2.7.4 with the following changes: >>>>>> Since about November/December last year I'm having problems with >>>>>> screen and tm

diagnostic character info (Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4)

2017-02-07 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 07.02.2017 um 08:30 schrieb Brian Inglis: On 2017-02-06 12:46, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 05.02.2017 um 21:36 schrieb Brian Inglis: It may also be useful if mintty had some character hex value box display mode switch to display the actual codes at each visual position, or maybe a font used

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-07 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 07.02.2017 um 08:30 schrieb Brian Inglis: On 2017-02-06 12:46, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 05.02.2017 um 21:36 schrieb Brian Inglis: On 2017-02-05 11:35, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 04.02.2017 um 17:13 schrieb Achim Gratz: Thomas Wolff writes: I have uploaded mintty 2.7.4 with the following

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-06 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-02-06 12:46, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 05.02.2017 um 21:36 schrieb Brian Inglis: >> On 2017-02-05 11:35, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>> Am 04.02.2017 um 17:13 schrieb Achim Gratz: >>>> Thomas Wolff writes: >>>>> I have uploaded mintty 2.7.4 with the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-06 Thread Doug Henderson
On 6 February 2017 at 12:46, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 05.02.2017 um 21:36 schrieb Brian Inglis: >> >> On 2017-02-05 11:35, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>> >>> Hi Achim, >>> >>> Am 04.02.2017 um 17:13 schrieb Achim Gratz: >>>> >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-06 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 05.02.2017 um 21:36 schrieb Brian Inglis: On 2017-02-05 11:35, Thomas Wolff wrote: Hi Achim, Am 04.02.2017 um 17:13 schrieb Achim Gratz: Thomas Wolff writes: I have uploaded mintty 2.7.4 with the following changes: Since about November/December last year I'm having problems with screen

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-06 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 06.02.2017 um 20:16 schrieb Achim Gratz: Achim Gratz writes: Thomas Wolff writes: Is this within tmux or after leaving tmux (see comment below)? It would be help to cross-test this; if it's mintty, which version would show the behaviour first? What happens in xterm? Within tmux or more

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: > Thomas Wolff writes: >> Is this within tmux or after leaving tmux (see comment below)? It >> would be help to cross-test this; if it's mintty, which version would >> show the behaviour first? What happens in xterm? > > Within tmux or more often scr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-05 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-02-05 11:35, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Hi Achim, > > Am 04.02.2017 um 17:13 schrieb Achim Gratz: >> Thomas Wolff writes: >>> I have uploaded mintty 2.7.4 with the following changes: >> Since about November/December last year I'm having problems with >>

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > Is this within tmux or after leaving tmux (see comment below)? It > would be help to cross-test this; if it's mintty, which version would > show the behaviour first? What happens in xterm? Within tmux or more often screen within tmux. I'll have to try what happens

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-05 Thread Thomas Wolff
Hi Achim, Am 04.02.2017 um 17:13 schrieb Achim Gratz: Thomas Wolff writes: I have uploaded mintty 2.7.4 with the following changes: Since about November/December last year I'm having problems with screen and tmux sessions in mintty not correctly refreshing and leaving garbage characters

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-02-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > I have uploaded mintty 2.7.4 with the following changes: Since about November/December last year I'm having problems with screen and tmux sessions in mintty not correctly refreshing and leaving garbage characters displayed in the terminal. It seems that the terminal s

Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-01-27 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.4 with the following changes: Localization details: * Fixed localized Bell field contents. * Adapting Bell list contents from system localization. * Fixed unlocalized Colour chooser label "Basic colours:" and Font chooser initial font sample.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

2017-01-27 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.4 with the following changes: Localization details: * Fixed localized Bell field contents. * Adapting Bell list contents from system localization. * Fixed unlocalized Colour chooser label "Basic colours:" and Font chooser initial font sample.

Re: mintty fails to start

2017-01-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 20.01.2017 um 22:19 schrieb Emember MemberUS via cygwin: ... Suggestion: produce an error message that would help identifying this problem when mintty starts. NOTE: this issue happens only in cygwin, and only when both files are present: /bin/bash.exe and empty /bin/bash

Re: mintty fails to start

2017-01-20 Thread Emember MemberUS via cygwin
- Original Message - From: Emember MemberUS <emembe...@yahoo.com> To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 10:25 AM Subject: mintty fails to start This is a minor issue and probably not typical, but could be of interest

Re: mintty fails to start

2017-01-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 19.01.2017 um 16:25 schrieb Emember MemberUS via cygwin: ... Suggestion: produce an error message that would help identifying this problem when mintty starts. NOTE: this issue happens only in cygwin, and only when both files are present: /bin/bash.exe and empty /bin/bash. If no bash

mintty fails to start

2017-01-19 Thread Emember MemberUS via cygwin
This is a minor issue and probably not typical, but could be of interest to cygwin developers/maintainers. Problem: After building a 3-party cross-toolchain (unrelated to cygwin), mintty is no longer able to start. While a few mintty windows that were still open worked ok, any NEW mintty

Re: Cygwin 2.6.1 bash fork errors upon starting mintty

2016-12-26 Thread Keith Christian
Brian, Thanks, with all Cygwin processes stopped, opening an ash.exe window via start/run, then cd /bin and running rebaseall fixed the errors present when I start mintty. Keith On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Brian Inglis <brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote: > On 2016-12-26 09:

Re: Cygwin 2.6.1 bash fork errors upon starting mintty

2016-12-26 Thread Brian Inglis
d not matter)) when starting > mintty: > 0 [main] bash 6072 child_info_fork::abort: > C:\cygwin\bin\cygncursesw-10.dll: Loaded to different address: > parent(0x7526) != child(0x76) > -bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > 1 [main] bash 11040 child_inf

Cygwin 2.6.1 bash fork errors upon starting mintty

2016-12-26 Thread Keith Christian
I created a cygcheck -s -r -v file to attach, but sourceware dot org blocked it Updated Cygwin this morning, getting fork errors (even after rebooting, (although reboots should not matter)) when starting mintty: 0 [main] bash 6072 child_info_fork::abort: C:\cygwin\bin\cygncursesw-10.dll

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.3

2016-12-22 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.3 with the following changes: Character display: * Tweaked surrogate handling to facilitate non-BMP display. Localization: * Persisting adaptation of font sample text. * Disambiguated translations in different context for "Paste", "Font", &

Updated: mintty 2.7.3

2016-12-22 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.3 with the following changes: Character display: * Tweaked surrogate handling to facilitate non-BMP display. Localization: * Persisting adaptation of font sample text. * Disambiguated translations in different context for "Paste", "Font", &

Re: mintty window gets tilde characters "pressed" in it

2016-12-14 Thread David Karr
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 1:33 PM, David Karr <davidmichaelk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Thomas Wolff <t...@towo.net> wrote: >> I've checked with Caffeine and traced mintty. It receives F15 key down, the >> key up. Caffeine claims to send key

Re: mintty window gets tilde characters "pressed" in it

2016-12-14 Thread David Karr
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Thomas Wolff <t...@towo.net> wrote: > I've checked with Caffeine and traced mintty. It receives F15 key down, the > key up. Caffeine claims to send key up only but that's not true. Please > report this as a bug to Caffeine. Understood. I just did

Re: mintty window gets tilde characters "pressed" in it

2016-12-14 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, David Karr! > I use a tool called "Windows Caffeine" that is used to keep the > display awake. What's wrong with correctly configured power saving settings?… -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, December 14, 2016 23:07:16 Sorry for my terrible english...

Re: mintty window gets tilde characters "pressed" in it

2016-12-14 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 14.12.2016 um 18:48 schrieb David Karr: On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:18 AM, David Karr <davidmichaelk...@gmail.com> wrote: Win7. I believe my Cygwin version info is "2.5.2(0.297/5/3) 2016-06-23 14:29". I've been annoyed for a while with a symptom in my mintty windows. I will

Re: mintty window gets tilde characters "pressed" in it

2016-12-14 Thread David Karr
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:18 AM, David Karr <davidmichaelk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Win7. I believe my Cygwin version info is "2.5.2(0.297/5/3) 2016-06-23 > 14:29". > > I've been annoyed for a while with a symptom in my mintty windows. I > will be typ

mintty window gets tilde characters "pressed" in it

2016-12-12 Thread David Karr
Win7. I believe my Cygwin version info is "2.5.2(0.297/5/3) 2016-06-23 14:29". I've been annoyed for a while with a symptom in my mintty windows. I will be typing along, or not, and suddenly a "~" character gets injected into the stream. It often is the only character at

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.2

2016-12-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.2 with the following changes: Localization: * Completion of localization support, covering font chooser and colour chooser (#537). * Hint in Theme field as feedback after dragging downloaded colour scheme. Other: * Fix config dialog crash when trying to load

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.1

2016-12-04 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.1 with the following changes: Highlights: * Tweaked and polished localization support; including German and French translations in cygwin package. * Uniscribe support and improved font fallback. * Support for distinct colour attributes for combining characters

Updated: mintty 2.7.1

2016-12-04 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.1 with the following changes: Highlights: * Tweaked and polished localization support; including German and French translations in cygwin package. * Uniscribe support and improved font fallback. * Support for distinct colour attributes for combining characters

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.0

2016-11-12 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.0. Highlights in this release: * Compose key * User interface localization support Full change log: Character display: * Check for misplaced underline by looking for underline only in descender section to decide whether to draw it ourselves (#604). * New

Updated: mintty 2.7.0

2016-11-12 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.7.0. Highlights in this release: * Compose key * User interface localization support Full change log: Character display: * Check for misplaced underline by looking for underline only in descender section to decide whether to draw it ourselves (#604). * New

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.6.1

2016-09-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.6.1 with the following changes: * Released Sixel graphics support in a stable version. With this nice feature, you can embed graphics output in the terminal, for example with gnuplot. * Tweaked DPI scaling to avoid terminal resizing on font selection (~#492

Updated: mintty 2.6.1

2016-09-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.6.1 with the following changes: * Released Sixel graphics support in a stable version. With this nice feature, you can embed graphics output in the terminal, for example with gnuplot. * Tweaked DPI scaling to avoid terminal resizing on font selection (~#492

Re: mintty shows some text in other than foreground color

2016-09-16 Thread Thomas Wolff
Hi James, On 2016-09-15 22:47, David Karr wrote: When I run mintty, the background is white, and normal text is black. This is fine. However, there are some applications that are displaying text in other colors, many of which are fine, but some apps display some text in yellow, which

Re: mintty shows some text in other than foreground color

2016-09-16 Thread David Karr
016-09-15 22:47, David Karr wrote: >> When I run mintty, the background is white, and normal text is black. >> This is fine. However, there are some applications that are >> displaying text in other colors, many of which are fine, but some apps >> display some text in ye

Re: mintty shows some text in other than foreground color

2016-09-16 Thread James Darnley
On 2016-09-15 22:47, David Karr wrote: > When I run mintty, the background is white, and normal text is black. > This is fine. However, there are some applications that are > displaying text in other colors, many of which are fine, but some apps > display some text in yellow, whic

Re: mintty shows some text in other than foreground color

2016-09-15 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-09-15 14:47, David Karr wrote: When I run mintty, the background is white, and normal text is black. This is fine. However, there are some applications that are displaying text in other colors, many of which are fine, but some apps display some text in yellow, which on a white

Re: mintty shows some text in other than foreground color

2016-09-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, David Karr! > When I run mintty, the background is white, and normal text is black. > This is fine. However, there are some applications that are > displaying text in other colors, many of which are fine, but some apps > display some text in yellow, which on a whit

mintty shows some text in other than foreground color

2016-09-15 Thread David Karr
When I run mintty, the background is white, and normal text is black. This is fine. However, there are some applications that are displaying text in other colors, many of which are fine, but some apps display some text in yellow, which on a white background is almost unreadable. For instance

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.5.1 and test release mintty 2.6.0

2016-09-07 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.5.1 with the following changes: * Revised DPI handling (#470; #492, #487); always consider individual monitor DPI. * Fixed font scaling behaviour in Windows 7 and XP (#492). * Fixed DPI scaling of Options menu (#492). * Fixed font description formatting

Updated: mintty 2.5.1 and test release mintty 2.6.0

2016-09-07 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.5.1 with the following changes: * Revised DPI handling (#470; #492, #487); always consider individual monitor DPI. * Fixed font scaling behaviour in Windows 7 and XP (#492). * Fixed DPI scaling of Options menu (#492). * Fixed font description formatting

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.4.3 and test release mintty 2.5.0

2016-08-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 23.08.2016 um 11:30 schrieb Frank Fesevur: 2016-08-23 1:29 GMT+02:00 Thomas Wolff: I have also uploaded mintty 2.5.0 as a test release with the following change: * Revise DPI handling (#470; #492, #487); always consider individual monitor DPI. Note that this release introduces

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.4.3 and test release mintty 2.5.0

2016-08-23 Thread Frank Fesevur
2016-08-23 1:29 GMT+02:00 Thomas Wolff: > I have also uploaded mintty 2.5.0 as a test release with the following > change: > > * Revise DPI handling (#470; #492, #487); always consider individual > monitor DPI. > > Note that this release introduces a slightly incompat

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.4.3 and test release mintty 2.5.0

2016-08-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.4.3 with the following changes: * Fix trails when moving other window over mintty under certain conditions (#576). * Fix format of double child creation error message. I have also uploaded mintty 2.5.0 as a test release with the following change: * Revise DPI

Updated: mintty 2.4.3 and test release mintty 2.5.0

2016-08-23 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.4.3 with the following changes: * Fix trails when moving other window over mintty under certain conditions (#576). * Fix format of double child creation error message. I have also uploaded mintty 2.5.0 as a test release with the following change: * Revise DPI

Re: Autorebase errors; mintty won't launch

2016-08-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 15:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 16 06:40, Emily Jackson wrote: > > I installed the latest test version of Cygwin, and afterward autorebase > > hung for several minutes until I cancelled it. I ran setup.exe again and > > got these errors: > > [...] > > Confirmed. Something's

<    2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   >