multiple displays support for XFCE

2019-09-02 Thread Jürgen Weber
Hi, got a two display Windows 10 system here. I'm using the XFCE desktop started with startxfce4. The whole desktop is in one Windows 10 toplevel window, that I can move to either one of the displays. Can you make XFCE full screen over both displays? Or can you start two XFCE desktop windows,

Re: Odd, is it not? mkdir 'e:\' cannot be undone by rmdir 'e:\' ...

2019-09-02 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Houder! > Examining this (obsure) method in path.cc, I corrected the code > in 2 places: > --- > if (dev.isfs ()) > { > //if (strncmp (path, ".\\", 4)) < 1171 > if ( ! strncmp (path, ".\\", 4)) // < [1] > { > i

Re: Bug report: Killing a native process may not actually kill it

2019-09-02 Thread Ray Donnelly
On Thu, 29 Aug 2019, 02:38 Steven Penny, wrote: > On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:57:23, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > My original post contained a link to a patch allowing for Cygwin to > > correctly terminate native Windows processes. I understand it is not > the > > position of the Cygwin project to

Re: gnome-terminal desktop shortcut

2019-09-02 Thread Franz Fehringer
This works for me with - DISPLAY=:0 at toplevel Windows (DOS) level - Cygwin bin (last) in the Windows (DOS) path The desktop link is C:\Tools\Cygwin\bin\run.exe C:\Tools\Cygwin\bin\gnome-terminal.exe One essential point is to use UTF-8 I have LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 both at Windows (DOS) and Cygwin leve

Re: gnome-terminal desktop shortcut

2019-09-02 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-09-01 23:14, Amadeus WM via cygwin wrote: > I installed cygwin 3.0.7 about 2 weeks ago and everything seems fine. > I start the X server from the command line with startxwin. > > What I'd like to do is to set up a desktop shortcut for gnome-terminal. > I have defined the DISPLAY=":0.0"

Re: change in pattern matching in pager /usr/bin/less

2019-09-02 Thread Steven Penny
On Sun, 01 Sep 2019 17:50:17, L A Walsh wrote: part of this is that the new cygwin less appears to use Obsolete REs that don't support '+'. That may be a compile flag. I don't know why \s is not working, however, 'awk' used to be the definitive Extended (modern) RE reference and does use \s for

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST: Cygwin 3.1.0-0.3

2019-09-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 1 12:00, Biswapriyo Nath wrote: > To Corinna Vinschen: > > > We can only use what's part of the current w32api-headers package. > > I occasionally contribute to mingw-w64 repository. Is there anything I can > do so that cygwin uses latest headers and libraries from mingw-w64? This is Jon

Re: Odd, is it not? mkdir 'e:\' cannot be undone by rmdir 'e:\' ...

2019-09-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 1 19:38, Houder wrote: > On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:54:27, Houder wrote: > > > A trailing forward slash in "pathname" is stripped in path_conv::check, > > > > (look for: *--tail = '\0' ) > > > > after "pathname" has been normalized in > > > > normalized_posix_path or normalized_win32_path

Re: change in pattern matching in pager /usr/bin/less

2019-09-02 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 5:50 PM L A Walsh wrote: > For some reason, the behavior of less has changed recently in regards to how > it interprets characters like '\s' (whitespace). Sadly, it's been compiled with POSIX regular expressions on Cygwin for quite a while now. On Linux it is often compiled