Ah, ok. I tried it your way, by directly sshing into my gentoo box from the initial cygwin console, and I also get the problem you describe.
For me, however, it's not an issue, because the only thing I do on the console is type "startx" and minimize it :) From there on I'm in the X environment with xterms and such, so everything works very well. I recommend it highly over the stock initial console. In fact, the only applications I have running on my cygwin/X desktop are a few xterm/ssh sessions into other boxes. I'd use the native console (the startup thing), but with the X desktop I get resizable windows (it's annoying you can't resize the width of the console), multiple windows viewable simultaneously, and, now, correct terminal emulation :) Oh, the other nice thing about using the xterm on X as opposed to the startup console is that at least one of the boxes I ssh into (a OpenBSD box at work) doesn't recognize a "cygwin" terminal. Eric ----- Original Message ----- From: "john lawler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 3:19 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cygwin terminal problem logging into gentoo > Well, one difference is that I'm not using a window manager. I'm just > launching the basic command window that gives you a Cygwin / UNIX > environment under what appears to be just a Windows command prompt, > really. That's where my problem is occuring. I'm running Windows XP > Pro, too, but I doubt that makes any difference. > > Is anyone else using Cygwin as I'm describing to directly log into a > terminal session on a Gentoo box? > > Thanks for the reply, Eric. > > jl > > Eric Livingston wrote: > > >>I've been having this problem ever since I installed gentoo. I use ssh > >>under Cygwin to login to my Gentoo box, and I've noticed whenever I try > >>to look at 'top', when it goes fullscreen, it seems to put one character > >>past the end of the line that the cygwin terminal can display, so that > >>character wraps to the next line and makes everything look messed up. > >> > >> > > > >Well, if it's any help, I do *not* seem to have the problem, so it may not > >be a universal thing. Just to be sure I'm doing the same thing: > > > >1. Open an xterm under cygwin (I'm using Windowmaker, if it makes a > >difference) > >2. ssh to my gentoo box (~x86 specified, fully updated), using the ssh2 > >protocol (though that shouldn't matter) > >3. run "top" > > > >The screen is correctly painted. Moreover, I can resize the screen, in > >particular making it too narrow to hold the top output fully, and everything > >still paints ok. > > > >Eric > > > > > >-- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
