Re: 1.7: mintty 5.5.1 refuses to take hippos seriously ;-(
2009/12/23 Lee Rothstein: Chris, Thanks for the reference. As I mentioned, it wasn't retrievable via Google. Strange. As you had stated earlier, the key to solving the problem is to reference: --icon=c:\_0\cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll,10 in the shortcut Hippo hippo hurray! Note to everyone, including Andy, the ICO file worked until Mintty v0.5.4. And, all my other ICO files seem to work with Mintty v0.5.5, including an earlier one, I had gerri-rigged. Strange. I wonder what's different about the hippo. I might have a look at implementing a fallback from 0.5.5's ExtractIcon call to 0.5.4's LoadImage. 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
Re: 1.7: mintty 5.5.1 refuses to take hippos seriously ;-(
Note to everyone, including Andy, the ICO file worked until Mintty v0.5.4. And, all my other ICO files seem to work with Mintty v0.5.5, including an earlier one, I had gerri-rigged. Strange. I wonder what's different about the hippo. I might have a look at implementing a fallback from 0.5.5's ExtractIcon call to 0.5.4's LoadImage. If a fallback to LoadImage is added, keep in mind that LoadImage will work with .ico files only. AFAIK the issue with the hippo.ico file had something to do with the compression of the PNG file used to create the .ico file and the the fact that Vista is generally anal retentive regarding compressed files. As a result, as Chuck found, 'hiding' the icon in a DLL bypassed Vista's qualms about accessing an icon that contained a compressed image. Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org -- 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
Re: 1.7: mintty 5.5.1 refuses to take hippos seriously ;-(
2009/12/22 Lee D. Rothstein: '--icon=c:\_0\hippo_xp.ico' option now breaks mintty. Works for me, with the icon placed in the same location. This is on XP, and I tried it both in Cygwin 1.5 and 1.7. What system are you on? How does it break? Can you run mintty with that option from an existing mintty session and see whether it reports an error? 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
Re: 1.7: mintty 5.5.1 refuses to take hippos seriously ;-(
Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/22 Lee D. Rothstein: '--icon=c:\_0\hippo_xp.ico' option now breaks mintty. Works for me, with the icon placed in the same location. This is on XP, and I tried it both in Cygwin 1.5 and 1.7. NB: c:\_0 is my root. I just looked at the ownership/mode of hippo_xp.ico and it was lr:none and 700. I changed it to lr:root and 777, and the Windows shortcut still doesn't work. While lr is part of root (Administrators), I don't run the shortcut with elevated privilege. What system are you on? -- $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 GW2 1.7.0(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-04 17:08 i686 Cygwin -- si ... OS Name:Microsoftr Windows VistaT Home Premium OS Version: 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2 Build 6002 -- How does it break? Screen flickers, nothing else happens. Can you run mintty with that option from an existing mintty session and see whether it reports an error? No. No matter how I specify mintty or the icon on the command line, 'mintty' cannot load the icon. e.g., all of the following don't work: $ mintty --icon=/hippo_xp.ico - mintty: could not load icon -- /hippo_xp.ico $ /bin/mintty.exe --icon=$(cygpath -ua 'c:\_0\hippo_xp.ico') - mintty: could not load icon -- /hippo_xp.ico ... yet: $ ls -al / ... -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 lr root 46878 2009-12-05 08:26 hippo_xp.ico ... $ mintty --version mintty 0.5.5 ... WTF,O, Lee -- 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
Re: 1.7: mintty 5.5.1 refuses to take hippos seriously ;-(
e.g., all of the following don't work: $ mintty --icon=/hippo_xp.ico - mintty: could not load icon -- /hippo_xp.ico $ /bin/mintty.exe --icon=$(cygpath -ua 'c:\_0\hippo_xp.ico') - mintty: could not load icon -- /hippo_xp.ico What happens if you do: $ mintty --icon=/Cygwin.ico - Do you experience the same behaviour? Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org -- 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
Re: 1.7: mintty 5.5.1 refuses to take hippos seriously ;-(
2009/12/22 Lee D. Rothstein: '--icon=c:\_0\hippo_xp.ico' option now breaks mintty. Works for me, with the icon placed in the same location. This is on XP, and I tried it both in Cygwin 1.5 and 1.7. NB: c:\_0 is my root. I just looked at the ownership/mode of hippo_xp.ico and it was lr:none and 700. I changed it to lr:root and 777, and the Windows shortcut still doesn't work. While lr is part of root (Administrators), I don't run the shortcut with elevated privilege. What system are you on? -- $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 GW2 1.7.0(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-04 17:08 i686 Cygwin Sorry, I can't reproduce this on Vista or 7 either. Hippo looking happy. Further to Chris's suggestion of trying Cygwin.ico, does it make a difference if you copy the hippo elsewhere? Also, did the shortcut work with mintty-0.5.4? (0.5.5 uses a different Windows function to load the icon, but it's not immediately obvious why that might upset the hippo.) 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
Re: 1.7: mintty 5.5.1 refuses to take hippos seriously ;-(
Chris Sutcliffe wrote: e.g., all of the following don't work: $ mintty --icon=/hippo_xp.ico - mintty: could not load icon -- /hippo_xp.ico $ /bin/mintty.exe --icon=$(cygpath -ua 'c:\_0\hippo_xp.ico') - mintty: could not load icon -- /hippo_xp.ico What happens if you do: $ mintty --icon=/Cygwin.ico - works! Do you experience the same behaviour? Chris -- 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
Re: 1.7: mintty 5.5.1 refuses to take hippos seriously ;-(
Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/22 Lee D. Rothstein: '--icon=c:\_0\hippo_xp.ico' option now breaks mintty. Works for me, with the icon placed in the same location. This is on XP, and I tried it both in Cygwin 1.5 and 1.7. NB: c:\_0 is my root. I just looked at the ownership/mode of hippo_xp.ico and it was lr:none and 700. I changed it to lr:root and 777, and the Windows shortcut still doesn't work. While lr is part of root (Administrators), I don't run the shortcut with elevated privilege. What system are you on? -- $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 GW2 1.7.0(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-04 17:08 i686 Cygwin Sorry, I can't reproduce this on Vista or 7 either. 64b Vista! Hippo looking happy. Further to Chris's suggestion of trying Cygwin.ico, does it make a difference if you copy the hippo elsewhere? No, it doesn't work there either! Also, did the shortcut work with mintty-0.5.4? Yes. (0.5.5 uses a different Windows function to load the icon, but it's not immediately obvious why that might upset the hippo.) So, you're saying that not all Windows parties treat hippos equally. Tsk! ;-) -- 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
Re: 1.7: mintty 5.5.1 refuses to take hippos seriously ;-(
What happens if you do: $ mintty --icon=/Cygwin.ico - works! I suspect this is related to an issue reported before with the hippo icon (I assume it's the one Chuck mentioned in a previous email?). I don't remember the exact details, but I remember Vista not liking the icon unless it was embedded in a dll (which Chuck subsequently uploaded). To use it, try: mintty --icon=/cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll,10 which will get you the hippo icon. Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org -- 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
Re: 1.7: mintty 5.5.1 refuses to take hippos seriously ;-(
Chris Sutcliffe wrote: What happens if you do: $ mintty --icon=/Cygwin.ico - works! I suspect this is related to an issue reported before with the hippo icon (I assume it's the one Chuck mentioned in a previous email?). I don't remember the exact details, but I remember Vista not liking the icon unless it was embedded in a dll (which Chuck subsequently uploaded). To use it, try: mintty --icon=/cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll,10 which will get you the hippo icon. $ find /[a-ce-quv]* -name cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll Google: cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll Google: cygwin hippo icon dll all reveal NADA! What am I missing? -- 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
Re: 1.7: mintty 5.5.1 refuses to take hippos seriously ;-(
$ find /[a-ce-quv]* -name cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll Google: cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll Google: cygwin hippo icon dll all reveal NADA! What am I missing? This email: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-12/msg00234.html The thread will also provide the background on what I was referring to. Cheers! Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org -- 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
Re: 1.7: mintty 5.5.1 refuses to take hippos seriously ;-(
Chris, Thanks for the reference. As I mentioned, it wasn't retrievable via Google. Strange. As you had stated earlier, the key to solving the problem is to reference: --icon=c:\_0\cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll,10 in the shortcut Note to everyone, including Andy, the ICO file worked until Mintty v5.5. And, all my other ICO files seem to work with Mintty v5.5, including an earlier one, I had gerri-rigged. Thanks Andy, for the feature, it allows me to discrim among Mintty Windows and cmd.exe Windows, much more easily. Both I and my Hippo are very greatful. Lee Chris Sutcliffe wrote: $ find /[a-ce-quv]* -name cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll Google: cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll Google: cygwin hippo icon dll all reveal NADA! What am I missing? This email: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-12/msg00234.html The thread will also provide the background on what I was referring to. Cheers! Chris -- 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
