On 2016-12-22 07:25, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> Mystery solved (to my satisfaction). After writing, I realized that
> the script wasn't working consistently, sometimes causing IE to
> misbehave as I originally posted. A bit of digging showed that it was
> working if invoked from a bash session initiated by "chere", but not
> otherwise. Comparing environment variables between the two, I notice
> my regular session doesn't include several variables that chere does.
> Prime suspects:
> * CommonProgramFiles(x86)
> * CommonProgramW6432
> * PUBLIC
> * ProgramData
> * ProgramFiles(x86)
> * ProgramW6432
> Experimentation will no doubt find the culprit, and will put me back
> in business.
Check your Cygwin/mintty startup shortcut target or other command line
looks like:
"...\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -"
where the final " -" ensures that the shell is invoked as a login shell,
otherwise normal login setup may not be done correctly or fully.
Confirm that you still have /bin/cygwin-console-helper installed.
Failing that, check if your profile or rc scripts are doing, using, or
invoking something which sanitizes your environment or changes it
incompatibly.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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