From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 98044 invoked by alias); 6 Jun 2019 22:57:09 -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 98034 invoked by uid 89); 6 Jun 2019 22:57:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=Points, army, swiss X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 22:57:07 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.114] ([24.64.172.44]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id Z1Jhhdg0QldkPZ1Jihi7w6; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:57:06 -0600 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: Dragging from explorer to cygwin terminal is not putting the path into the terminal To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <48981a768f895c196f11fa4a107cfd4d@smtp-cloud7.xs4all.net> From: Brian Inglis Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 22:57:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-06/txt/msg00078.txt.bz2 On 2019-06-06 16:34, Academy OfFetishes wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 3:26 PM Academy OfFetishes wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 12:56 PM Houder wrote: >>> On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 10:56:28, Academy OfFetishes wrote: >>>> Well first of all, is this feature supposed to work by default or is it >>>> something you turn on? >>> Yes. >> Yes to which? Yes to both? If it's something you turn on, where is that >> setting? >>>>> What did you try? Something that can give us (and you) a clue ... >>>> I tried dragging a file to the terminal. >>> That is not not what I meant ... You could have told us whether or not the >>> problem is also present if you install the previous version of MinTTY ... >>> When I wrote, you are sitting behind your computer, I was not trying to be >>> nasty ... I meant, you are the _only_ one who can provide us clues, >>> because right now we have not enough info to help you. >> When I install a previous version it doesn't make a difference. I've >> installed 2.9.9 >> I'd like to help more than this, but I don't know what other information I >> can provide that would be helpful. > There are two things that I suspect could be the culprit. I ran these two > scripts after installing windows: > https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater > https://github.com/alirobe/Reclaim-Windows10 > After that, I created a new user I login as and installed cygwin from the > new user. Oops! These scripts tend to be the proverbial swiss army chainsaw that blows away anything the writer dislikes about Windows. I very carefully review and comment out anything that might affect core function or be difficult to reverse in these scripts, and create System Restore Points. Did you create a System Restore Point before and after running each of these scripts? If so, perhaps you could restore your system? -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- 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