From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 108116 invoked by alias); 13 May 2018 20:04:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 108098 invoked by uid 89); 13 May 2018 20:04:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: mout.kundenserver.de Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (HELO mout.kundenserver.de) (212.227.17.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 13 May 2018 20:04:44 +0000 Received: from [192.168.178.45] ([95.90.234.254]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue105 [212.227.15.183]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Lm4C9-1eitb60sAz-00ZeL3 for ; Sun, 13 May 2018 22:04:41 +0200 Subject: Re: Problems with mintty jump list To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <9d72af26-6725-adf5-634c-cc5d16309e9d@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <47ed6ff1-1662-c014-58d6-f97ff29bb95b@towo.net> From: Thomas Wolff Message-ID: <7cb84ed3-51ad-494d-0e0d-552a8326883b@towo.net> Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 21:05:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:LHDtIJvKNYk=:+7o1QUH5Uya0dFKIAcvpR7 wap9OY0SviUzn8vcWKyW4U/SkUYOJF5qiygko+pTvBJczPfUGQGfiVcRdjswkylO88fcK7Pyx agel5N7dg7Fijf/9sAJod1SHyYGsBMe3kyKo51PB3AwiF++Hx1Epaz3G1FJrUnzaFr2cQHRf8 8dcde4hhYaY+PRbWbX5d24R1Dk0IwuMgL/vhig4TniIbHQpg6knznoJYYfEHzIJk/7wWIrdiH zXciFSPdTLcqeDQEySqiadGCh1Ed2X4BhXantcoCkIJLJZM3Qaje8zjewXmOEAqMyGCRwN86E /QUAD/oegeU+9ldC/aOC5yA6gQBHTVCuV3v5MPjj7+F63urhavrIEr/ZgdYTMz5rwsN5z87AS 2eDIw9u3u54E/WQE2AvfjUYFCEhzdTMSCNc5Q118orvLV890sqYk/DikFDrjXJzn5DclVOX5R 38JV7UYyAeX5f41CA2uR8iqUrWWvcNqztxXuH9ukhfPXP774DRDiNU0C/HsOR9KmSwZhnLjYp IrLISnJbE2KZ1pWszVVRUOO2E74AXevBZ7EoKg1Ti35JW4yfvcWnyy8VFK4WrbTcgPsX6SPyY ntc8CWAwrDKeG5dJhiohXMpzZpaco+Hkn3BJAD7Ry7s9yBJEJl/1VD6cvnmUctVQID0DKInUk 8sqg6qJQsrkPkXmqCL51aFVC6CZM+0Ih9IpzowwOTuGJfeO9clNqFNJY47DGkTKkzT5cz1T0j Yik7GY0PXgtMsIFm X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-05/txt/msg00173.txt.bz2 Am 13.05.2018 um 16:37 schrieb Michael Schaap: > On 13 May 18 11:45, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Am 12.05.2018 um 19:15 schrieb Brian Inglis: >>> On 2018-05-12 06:28, Michael Schaap wrote: >>>> I'm experimenting with the new mintty jump list feature, but I'm >>>> having trouble >>>> getting things working. >>>> I've added the following to my .minttyrc: >>>>      TaskCommands=default:-p 100,100;myserver:-p bottom -p right -o >>>> BackgroundColour=255,250,230 -e /usr/bin/ssh -C -Y -o >>>> ServerAliveInterval=60 >>>> myserver.example.org >>>> I then started mintty with: >>>>      mintty -o AppID=minttytest >>>> The MinTTY window appeared, with a new icon on the task bar. I >>>> pinned that >>>> icon, and closed this new window. >>>> A right click on the taskbar icon now indeed shows two jump list >>>> entries: >>>> default and myserver. >>>> But when I click on "default", a MinTTY window does open and runs >>>> my shell >>>> (which is zsh), but the environment is different than normal: for >>>> instance, >>>> /usr/bin is not in the $PATH and most commands are therefore not >>>> found.  (It's >>>> not running as a login shell?) >> Yes, as you most likely want to run a login shell, you should add a >> bare '-' to the arguments list, like >> >> TaskCommands=default:-p 100,100 -;... > > Indeed, that helped. > I was a bit confused about why I needed this here, and not when > running MinTTY "normally", but then I saw that the default shortcut > also had this argument. > >> >>>> When I close all MinTTY windows, the icon remains on the taskbar >>>> (as it should), >>>> but the jump list entries are gone. >>>> What am I doing wrong? >> Nothing. I have no idea why this fails, in my testing it worked. On >> the other hand, the whole jump list showed up on only 2 of 3 test >> systems and failed on one. Mozilla applications (Thunderbird, >> Firefox) manage to establish a task list on all of these systems, but >> their jumplist code looks much more complex. If someone finds out by >> what cursed Microsoft magic this is further affected, I'd consider an >> enhancement... > > I got things working.  :-) > I noted that the entries disappeared from the list as soon as I > clicked on one of them.  I eventually tried adding "-o AppID=..." to > the arguments in TaskCommands, and that helped: the entries remained. > The only remaining problem was that the entries still disappeared when > clicking on "Terminal" (or simply clicking on the pinned taskbar item > with no terminal windows open), so I added AppName and AppLaunchCmd > options to .minttyrc, and that did the trick. > > So, in the end, I added these lines to ~/.minttyrc: > >     TaskCommands=default:-o AppID=mymintty -p 1170,605 -;myserver:-o > AppID=mymintty -p bottom -p right -o BackgroundColour=255,250,230 -e > /usr/bin/ssh -C -Y -o ServerAliveInterval=60 myserver.example.org >     AppName=Terminal >     AppLaunchCmd=C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -o AppID=mymintty - > > then started MinTTY with this shortcut: > >     C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -o AppID=mymintty > --store-taskbar-properties - > > and pinned it to the taskbar. > > Thanks for your help (and for providing the awesome MinTTY in general!), > >  – Michael > > PS: PuTTY also supports the jump list, both "Recent Sessions" and a > couple of fixed "Tasks", this appears to work fine.  I'm sure you're > more familiar with the PuTTY source code than that of Mozilla apps, so > perhaps it helps to take a look at how PuTTY's doing this? Thanks, maybe jumplist-started instances should implicitly inherit AppID. Are you sure --store-taskbar-properties is needed to get the jumplist stable? This would have additional implications, to be checked. Thomas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple