On 29 May 2012 17:17, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: > > Ryan Johnson wrote: >> >>I routinely encounter mintty windows that don't close after >>I exit the login shell they run (even though they contain no >>visible child processes), but they can still be closed using >>the big red "X" in the corner... your problem sounds like >>something more sinister. >> >>Ryan >> > > There is never an "X" to deal with here. One never know there is > a problem until he does start->Log Off to log out of windows. > > I can normally close any/all mintty windows and then with various > process explorers try to find a mintty process and never find any. > Then when I log out of Windows, Windows claims it has to close > mintty.exe. This was fixed once in a snapshot of 1.7.10, but > has since returned with 1.7.15. In this incarnation it seems to > occur whenever I've run a Cygwin X app from a mintty window. > If I've signed on in Windows and never run a Cygwin X app it > generally doesn't happen, but I can't be sure it never happens. > Every time I've run a Cygwin X app though I can expect to see > it after closing (apparently normally) all mintty windows and > then log off of Windows.
Do I understand you correctly that you no longer have any mintty windows open when this happens? That's puzzling indeed. Have you looked at ye olde Big List Of Dodgy Applications? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda 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