On 18/05/2010, cy.20.superconductor wrote: > I sometimes forget to append a & when opening a new mintty from an > existing mintty. With rxvt this was never a problem, just ^Z and bg in > the parent terminal (my shell is bash 3.2.49-23). This doesn't seem to > work for mintty (0.6.2-1) though - although it seems that the job has > has been put into the background it never becomes possible to type > anything into the newly spawned terminal window after ^Z has been used. > > If I spawn an rxvt from a mintty (or indeed an rxvt from an rxvt) using > ^Z and bg works without any problems. I can't see anything obviously > different in the output of stty -a between my rxvt and mintty. > > If I start a mintty with a &, fg it and then bg it again, the same > effect occurs - it becomes impossible to type anything into the child > mintty. > > I can an alias to avoid tripping myself up on this all the time, but it > seemed worth querying. Is there something I'm missing or a setting > needed somewhere to make mintty background-able (or indeed does anyone > else experience this behaviour?)
Thanks for the report, I'll look into this when I get back from holiday. Btw, you can also start a new mintty using Alt+F2. Andy -- 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