* environment problems mixing mintty and xterm
@ 2009-01-22 16:57 Lester Ingber
2009-01-22 22:57 ` Andy Koppe
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From: Lester Ingber @ 2009-01-22 16:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
I find mintty very useful. I can bring it up as a standalone window or I
can run run additional windows from xterm running under X. If I do the
latter then mintty inherits the environment from the xterm window I'm
running, e.g., including additional path entries set in ~/.tcshrc, etc.
However, if I run mintty from my xterm window I have some problems.
For example, say I have open xterm (from startxwin.csh) with
xterm +tb -j -sb -geometry 80x84-6+0 &
this sets LINES set to 84.
If I have set up .minttyrc with
Rows=100
then after I go to my mintty window and back to my xterm, my xterm window
is messed up, e.g., top rows under `less` are off the screen.
There is no such problem, when running xterm, if I open an additional
mintty window as a Windows shortcut since it seems to open independently
-- without taking on the environment variables in my xterm window.
I guess it probably would increase the minimal nature of mintty to restore
such environment variables when leaving a mintty window?
Thanks.
Lester
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* Re: environment problems mixing mintty and xterm
2009-01-22 16:57 environment problems mixing mintty and xterm Lester Ingber
@ 2009-01-22 22:57 ` Andy Koppe
2009-01-23 5:12 ` Nedit text plane inoperable WEEBER Bill
2009-01-23 10:18 ` WEEBER Bill
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From: Andy Koppe @ 2009-01-22 22:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Lester Ingber wrote:
> However, if I run mintty from my xterm window I have some problems.
>
> For example, say I have open xterm (from startxwin.csh) with
> xterm +tb -j -sb -geometry 80x84-6+0 &
> this sets LINES set to 84.
>
> If I have set up .minttyrc with
> Rows=100
> then after I go to my mintty window and back to my xterm, my xterm window
> is messed up, e.g., top rows under `less` are off the screen.
>
> There is no such problem, when running xterm, if I open an additional
> mintty window as a Windows shortcut since it seems to open independently
> -- without taking on the environment variables in my xterm window.
Thanks for the problem report, although I'd prefer to get these via the
issue tracker at http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/ .
Unfortunately I haven't been able to reproduce the problem. A Unix
process only receives copies of its parent's environment variables and
it cannot change the originals, so the problem isn't caused that way.
Window size changes are signalled to the child process through a call to
ioctl() on the child's pseudo terminal (pty), which triggers a SIGWINCH
signal in any processes controlled by that pty. Perhaps something is
going awry there.
Does the LINES variable in the xterm change immediately after invoking
mintty, when you change mintty's size, or only after exiting it? What
command line are you invoking mintty with?
Andy
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* Nedit text plane inoperable.
2009-01-22 22:57 ` Andy Koppe
@ 2009-01-23 5:12 ` WEEBER Bill
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2009-01-23 10:18 ` WEEBER Bill
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From: WEEBER Bill @ 2009-01-23 5:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Hello,
I've been successfully using Nedit on Cygwin for several years. Today,
I did a fresh Cygwin install and Nedit no longer works properly.
Now Nedit starts up just like it always did in the past, but the text
plane is inoperable. I am able to read the document, and the document is
not in read only state.
When I click on the text plane, nothing happens. Normally a cursor would
appear.
Menu items popup when I click on them, but I cannot type characters in
the dialog boxes.
When I swap my cygwin directory with a previous install, everything
works fine.
I'm using the following:
Xming (6-9-0-31) as my X server
Windows XP Professional SP2
Anyone else experiencing these problems?
Thanks,
-Bill
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2009-01-22 22:57 ` Andy Koppe
2009-01-23 5:12 ` Nedit text plane inoperable WEEBER Bill
@ 2009-01-23 10:18 ` WEEBER Bill
2009-01-23 11:28 ` WEEBER Bill
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: WEEBER Bill @ 2009-01-23 10:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Hello,
I've been successfully using Nedit on Cygwin for several years. Today,
I did a fresh Cygwin install and Nedit no longer works properly.
Now Nedit starts up just like it always did in the past, but the text
plane is inoperable. I am able to read the document, and the document is
not in read only state.
When I click on the text plane, nothing happens. Normally a cursor would
appear.
Menu items popup when I click on them, but I cannot type characters in
the dialog boxes.
When I swap my cygwin directory with a previous install, everything
works fine.
I'm using the following:
Xming (6-9-0-31) as my X server
Windows XP Professional SP2
Anyone else experiencing these problems?
Thanks,
-Bill
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* RE: Nedit text plane inoperable.
2009-01-23 10:18 ` WEEBER Bill
@ 2009-01-23 11:28 ` WEEBER Bill
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From: WEEBER Bill @ 2009-01-23 11:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Oops, Sent this to wrong mail list. Sorry:)
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Of WEEBER Bill
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 12:06 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: Nedit text plane inoperable.
Hello,
I've been successfully using Nedit on Cygwin for several years. Today,
I did a fresh Cygwin install and Nedit no longer works properly.
Now Nedit starts up just like it always did in the past, but the text
plane is inoperable. I am able to read the document, and the document is
not in read only state.
When I click on the text plane, nothing happens. Normally a cursor would
appear.
Menu items popup when I click on them, but I cannot type characters in
the dialog boxes.
When I swap my cygwin directory with a previous install, everything
works fine.
I'm using the following:
Xming (6-9-0-31) as my X server
Windows XP Professional SP2
Anyone else experiencing these problems?
Thanks,
-Bill
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