From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 463 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2013 18:51:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 452 invoked by uid 89); 1 Aug 2013 18:51:04 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RDNS_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from Unknown (HELO mail-bk0-f51.google.com) (209.85.214.51) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:51:04 +0000 Received: by mail-bk0-f51.google.com with SMTP id ji2so812231bkc.10 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 11:50:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.204.240.141 with SMTP id la13mr651975bkb.84.1375383055736; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 11:50:55 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.237.194 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 11:50:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51FA9AD3.2010906@dronecode.org.uk> References: <51FA9AD3.2010906@dronecode.org.uk> From: Jeremy Elson Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:51:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: xterm title setting breaks when upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit cygwin To: cygwin-xfree Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 01/08/2013 01:55, Jeremy Elson wrote: > > I recently upgraded from the 32-bit to the 64-bit build of Cygwin > > 1.7.22 on Windows 8 x64. For the most part, everything works > > identically (except faster!). But I have noticed one problem: xterm no > > longer seems to respond to the magic escape codes that change its > > title. My shell uses this to update the title to reflect the current > > hostname and working directory, but after the upgrade all my xterms > > just have the same title: "tcsh". > > > > I haven't seen any mention of this bug on the mailing lists. Is anyone > > else experiencing this problem? > > Thanks for pointing out this problem. > > It seems that x86_64 X server has a bug that meant that no window could > change > it's title after it started. > > I've uploaded a snapshot at [1]. Perhaps you could try that and see if it > improves things for you? > > [1] > ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.x86_64.20130801-git-beadc5a3202e096a.exe.bz2 > Thanks for the very fast followup - yes, using the XWin binary below, my xterm can now set its title correctly! Thanks again, and regards, Jeremy -- 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/