Re: Request for a thicker line cursor in Mintty

2010-08-01 Thread Andy Koppe
On 31 July 2010 16:11, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 31 July 2010 15:24, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote: I use Mintty with the following options: Background: white, Foreground: black, Text: Fixedsys 9 pts, Cursor: line. With such options, vim with default unix .vimrc colors looks great

Re: Request for a thicker line cursor in Mintty

2010-08-01 Thread JOHNER Jean 066030
On 1 August 2010 09:43, Andy Koppe wrote: > > Turns out there's a global Windows setting for the cursor width, at > Control Panel -> Accessibility Options -> Display (that's where it is > in XP anyway). Trouble is, mintty doesn't support it, but fixing that > will address the issue without having t

Re: Window shortcut to launch a Mintty login bash on a given directory

2010-08-01 Thread JOHNER Jean 066030
On 31 July 2010 15:00, Andy Koppe wrote: > The window title is changed to the working directory as part of the > shell prompt, i.e. the PS1 variable, which is set in /etc/profile. > It's the initial part of it that does it: > \[\e]0;\w\a\] > So you could change PS1 to something more to your liki

Some key binding in Emacs not properly work in mintty.

2010-08-01 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko
Selection by Ctrl-Left/Right/Down work properly. But for Ctrl-Up Emacs say: is undefined Also I have trouble with . Emacs think that I press . I use GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) of 2009-07-30 with CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07. All other keys that I use work correctly (as i

Unknown option 'BackspaceSendsDEL' for mintty from emacs.README.

2010-08-01 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko
In Cygwin 1.7.1 installation in file /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README placed tips: - mintty: Put BackspaceSendsDEL=1 in your .minttyrc file. Under "man 1 mintty" present only 'BackspaceSendsBS' option. What option correct and why I need set it? Also please fix emacs.README if it already

Re: Some key binding in Emacs not properly work in mintty.

2010-08-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/1/2010 10:18 AM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: Selection by Ctrl-Left/Right/Down work properly. But for Ctrl-Up Emacs say: is undefined I can't reproduce this. If it still happens after you update your Cygwin installation (see below), please give a step-by-step recipe for reproducing

Re: Unknown option 'BackspaceSendsDEL' for mintty from emacs.README.

2010-08-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/1/2010 10:29 AM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: In Cygwin 1.7.1 installation in file /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README placed tips: - mintty: Put BackspaceSendsDEL=1 in your .minttyrc file. Under "man 1 mintty" present only 'BackspaceSendsBS' option. What option correct and why I nee

Re: elusive segfault on latest snapshots

2010-08-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 05:40:27PM +, Marco Atzeri wrote: >--- Sab 31/7/10, Christopher Faylor ha scritto: > >> -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 08:25:42AM +, Marco Atzeri >> wrote: >> >>on latest snapshots after 2010-07-07, I am picking >> random segfault >> >>

screen does not reattach with standard users through ssh

2010-08-01 Thread Ramiro Polla
Hi, I'm trying to get screen working through sshd. I have installed screen, and openssh, and configured with ssh-host-config (and set CYGWIN to tty). Users with administrator privileges can successfully create, detach, and reattach a screen session through ssh, but that is not possible with stand

Why did "cal" disappear in disrto??

2010-08-01 Thread Paul McFerrin
Could I get some from authority to address this issue? I noticed that when download the latest Cygwin distro the other day into a new PC, the "cal" package was nolonger included in any packages. However during the entire Beta test of Cygwin, it was there. Why was there a package removal a f

R: Why did "cal" disappear in disrto??

2010-08-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Dom 1/8/10, Paul McFerrin ha scritto: > Could I get some from authority to > address this issue? > > I noticed that when download the latest Cygwin distro the > other day into a new PC, the "cal" package was nolonger > included in any packages.  However during the entire > Beta test of Cygwi

Re: elusive segfault on latest snapshots

2010-08-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Dom 1/8/10, Christopher Faylor ha scritto: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 05:40:27PM > +, Marco Atzeri wrote: > >--- Sab 31/7/10, Christopher Faylor  ha scritto: > > > >> -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> >On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 08:25:42AM +, > Marco Atzeri > >> wrote: > >> >>on lates

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {zlib/zlib0/zlib-devel}-1.2.5-1

2010-08-01 Thread Charles Wilson
The zlib package has been updated to version 1.2.5-1. zlib is a standard lossless compression library. This is a routine update to the latest upstream version, which (after several years of relative stagnation) is now progressing. [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-3 ]] CHANGES since 1.2.3-10 ==

How to pass parameters to a windows application

2010-08-01 Thread Jason Pyeron
I am at my wits end trying to figure out how to execute this in bash C:\WINDOWS>cmd /c "start "" "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\projects\crisfield\trunk\etc"" jpye...@phoenix /projects/crisfield $ cmd /c "\"start \"\" \"C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Desktop\\projects\\crisf

Re: Why did "cal" disappear in disrto??

2010-08-01 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 16:41 -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote: > I noticed that when download the latest Cygwin distro the other day into > a new PC, the "cal" package was nolonger included in any packages. > However during the entire Beta test of Cygwin, it was there. And sure enough, it still is:

uptime load averaging

2010-08-01 Thread Elliot Saba
Hello, I've search around on google, and cannot find anyone else asking this question, so I have come here.  I'm trying to get the load averages of my windows machine through the "uptime" command, however the uptime command I'm running from procps 3.2.7-1 always returns "0.00 0.00 0.00" for the loa

Re: How to pass parameters to a windows application

2010-08-01 Thread Dave Hylands
Hi Jason, On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > I am at my wits end trying to figure out how to execute this in bash > > C:\WINDOWS>cmd /c "start "" "C:\Documents and Settings\All > Users\Desktop\projects\crisfield\trunk\etc"" Based on your prompt, I'd say that you're not in bash