From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: mintty window border?
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 01:07:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <827154de-b4d9-205c-8f9f-77468e04efbf@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65d75c6b-b532-562d-22a9-a2e2a1b1b37d@jhmg.net>
Am 25.04.2021 um 23:49 schrieb Jim Garrison via Cygwin:
> Mintty's window does not seem to have any border at the left and bottom.
> The top of the window has the title menu bar and the right side is the
> scroll bar. When I have multiple mintty windows open, and they overlap,
> since there is no border, one window blends into another.
>
> I searched mintty's options and there doesn't seem to be a way to
> specify a border. If the window background is a light color, there's
> a subtle drop shadow that helps a bit, but with a dark style it's
> impossible to distinguish the windows.
Borders are drawn by Windows, according to Windows style settings. This
is not specific to mintty, you'll see the same effect with other
applications.
>
> Here's a sample:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/10zKWdie_nA-_hzsN8i_GeCw7VadJBmol/view?usp=sharing
>
>
> Is there a way to make it draw a border?
Applications can draw their own decorations, at considerable
implementation effort.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-25 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-25 21:49 Jim Garrison
2021-04-25 23:07 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
2021-04-26 0:15 ` Mark Geisert
2021-04-26 18:37 ` Jim Garrison
2023-08-24 18:07 Jim Garrison
2023-08-24 22:58 ` Backwoods BC
2023-08-25 0:41 ` Gary Johnson
2023-08-25 1:20 ` Thomas Wolff
2023-08-25 6:52 ` Gary Johnson
2023-08-25 7:18 ` Backwoods BC
2023-08-25 7:33 ` Sam Edge
2023-08-25 18:26 ` Jim Garrison
2023-08-25 21:08 ` Gary Johnson
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