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From: Jim Garrison <jhg@jhmg.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: mintty window border?
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 11:26:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adc45bcf-5ca2-42a0-8a96-781fd9539594@jhmg.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwdsS_+2HyDM=cyvhfSD0wJEsWXe-CDQiK9aMEZiG544a=RtA@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/25/2023 00:18, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote:
[snip]
> 
> I get borders around both active and inactive windows, but then I've
> spent hours (probably days) messing with registry values in an attempt
> to gain the kind of UI control that was built into XP. I don't know
> which change I made that gave me borders, but it is possible.
> 
[snip]

In my setup (plain Win11 without registry hacks) the border is
highlighted on the focused window, and other windows have a much
fainter border, just enough to be visible when you have multiple
overlapping minttys with black background.  Not sure if this was
the case on Win10 as well.

-- 
Jim Garrison
jhg@acm.org


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-25 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
2023-08-25 21:08             ` Gary Johnson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-04-25 21:49 Jim Garrison
2021-04-25 23:07 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-04-26  0:15 ` Mark Geisert
2021-04-26 18:37   ` Jim Garrison

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