From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.spocom.com (mail.spocom.com [206.63.224.240]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64C233858C2C for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2023 05:53:16 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 64C233858C2C Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=spocom.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=spocom.com Received: from localhost (245.sub-75-213-68.myvzw.com [75.213.68.245]) by mail.spocom.com with SMTP; Thu, 24 Aug 2023 22:52:53 -0700 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 23:52:58 -0700 From: Gary Johnson To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mintty window border? Message-ID: <20230825065258.GB2657@phoenix> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <2ebdb074-383b-4948-8ebb-a41821dd7356@jhmg.net> <20230825004159.GA2657@phoenix> <7d6b3a36-b1ce-6755-a97f-7cf52fd70ae0@towo.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <7d6b3a36-b1ce-6755-a97f-7cf52fd70ae0@towo.net> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.32-74-generic GNU/Linux User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On 2023-08-25, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: > > > Am 25.08.2023 um 02:41 schrieb Gary Johnson via Cygwin: > >On 2023-08-24, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: > >>On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 11:08 AM Jim Garrison via Cygwin > >> wrote: > >>>This is an update to a question I had a couple of years ago > >>>https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-April/248367.html > >>> > >>>Windows 11 now has an "accent color" option under > >>>Settings/Personalization/Colors that adds a thin (1px?) border around > >>>all windows, in a user-selectable color. This definitively eliminates > >>>the problem seen with overlapping mintty windows that have a dark grey > >>>or black background (where the shadow isn't visible). > >>> > >>>Just FYI > >>> > >>>-- > >>>Jim Garrison > >>>jhg@acm.org > >>This is also true for Windows 10, although I may have had to > >>explicitly enable it (I don't remember). > >It's in the same place on Windows 10. I just enabled it. Thank you both! > But it adds the thin border only to the foreground window... > Thomas Yes, it's not as good as having a border around all windows all the time, or around just mintty and gvim windows, but it is so much better than nothing at all, or so it seems so far. Regards, Gary