From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 82281 invoked by alias); 14 Dec 2016 17:49:03 -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 82219 invoked by uid 89); 14 Dec 2016 17:49:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=sends X-HELO: mail-wm0-f49.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f49.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f49.google.com) (74.125.82.49) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:49:01 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f49.google.com with SMTP id t79so6038418wmt.0 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:49:01 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=K0LLm7X3s0KmZpBTgNJ+xAr4xC50Am5qjmGqsoA3yEA=; b=RNLT4kY/FQluLu8nr1r7KeZP8qn4uFccbdpDhUmhAmC+gqkOtHQD8KfH/XtbcYL7Ta qjUz2wiB6NCYQ2rstt7TFG6vMwHngaYWky9iWbsT6ARjSIuDieW4SpIoSSR2kwfE/Dvz 5aO5MT0JfDYH6LLZNzbRz41o+qZyFR9KTCTQR4VAqStOHhuNYjZUHw/qnZ9bF/mMyGbv TrWlRF6qsfrkSX0J0IdPrKv27XlN6zqxLSjHAX1ghtF2fqkkE5xUBTMHD15aVQkreNQo obccMJAfot+PgJuMOxYr9WRXfcOs7mI9Vj3r923t3tNK4s5az+oXYfrv0+BI/rsX8BUU evbw== X-Gm-Message-State: AKaTC028BSPFpSPhb2w+vmrLsr+Ys5me7MfkGwf9Ln0cTGR9rq3Tia2Ig/IB1F5m4MTXO1hxxC9JemVxkoavcg== X-Received: by 10.25.169.204 with SMTP id s195mr19214040lfe.45.1481737738662; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:48:58 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.25.99.70 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:48:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: David Karr Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:49:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: mintty window gets tilde characters "pressed" in it To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00156.txt.bz2 On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:18 AM, David Karr wrote: > Win7. I believe my Cygwin version info is "2.5.2(0.297/5/3) 2016-06-23 14:29". > > I've been annoyed for a while with a symptom in my mintty windows. I > will be typing along, or not, and suddenly a "~" character gets > injected into the stream. It often is the only character at the > prompt, so I can erase it and type my command, but it's really > annoying when it appears while I'm typing. I was just reminded of it > now when it injected the "~" right before I pressed enter on a > "mkdir", so I had to then remove the dir I just created and recreate > it. > > Is this something that Cygwin can control? I've determined what "instigates" this, but I find that it only mainly affects mintty and somewhat affects emacs. I've never seen a symptom in any other application. I use a tool called "Windows Caffeine" that is used to keep the display awake. It sends a "f15 key up" event every 59 seconds. That is what is producing the "~" character in the mintty window. I've also seen a symptom from this in Emacs, but it's harder to produce. It's not as simple as just having a text buffer in focus. I haven't been able to reliably produce it in Emacs, but the mintty symptom is very reproducible. -- 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