Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-23 Thread pichi032 .
happening because he’s not running cygcheck under Cygwin, since Cygwin won’t start on his system. Hence, c:\cygwin\bin isn’t in the path. This is also why it skips all the package checks, and why it complains about things like awk not found. You don't need mintty to run cygwin. Open a cmd

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-23 Thread cyg Simple
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 7:37 AM, pichi032 . wrote: But cygcheck is in the bin folder along with the missing dll . Is there a way to edit the path so they get recognized ? Open your Command Prompt the issue the following: set PATH=C:\PATH\TO\CYGWIN\BIN;%PATH% After this you should be able to

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-22 Thread pichi032 .
Regarding the dll it is indeed in the same folder , just checked it. I even tried installing Cygwin on a friend's computer and it worked on the first try. Perhaps my sistem is faulty or is there an special way to install it under windows 8.1 ? On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Marco Atzeri

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-22 Thread Andrey Repin
it complains about things like awk not found. You don't need mintty to run cygwin. Open a cmd prompt and do C:\Cygwin\bin\bash -i --login (Or wherever you installed Cygwin). Don't even need a cmd prompt. You can just start bash. True cut if something goes wrong it's real hard to catch

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-21 Thread pichi032 .
I installed it in my C: drive now.. This is cygcheck output : By the way Mintty still doesn't work ( Can it possibly be related to the path with the Nvidia folder ? ) Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus _autorebase 000291-1 OK _update-info

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-21 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 11/21/2014 4:37 PM, pichi032 . wrote: I installed it in my C: drive now.. This is cygcheck output : Not Found: awk Not Found: bash Not Found: cat Not Found: cp Not Found: cpp (good!) Not Found: crontab Found: C:\Windows\system32\find.exe Not Found: gcc Not Found: gdb Not Found: grep Not

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-21 Thread Warren Young
Warning: cygwin1.dll not found on your path this is curious It’s happening because he’s not running cygcheck under Cygwin, since Cygwin won’t start on his system. Hence, c:\cygwin\bin isn’t in the path. This is also why it skips all the package checks, and why it complains about things

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
checks, and why it complains about things like awk not found. You don't need mintty to run cygwin. Open a cmd prompt and do C:\Cygwin\bin\bash -i --login (Or wherever you installed Cygwin). -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-21 Thread Achim Gratz
pichi032 . writes: I installed it in my C: drive now.. This is cygcheck output : By the way Mintty still doesn't work ( Can it possibly be related to the path with the Nvidia folder ? ) Go into Windows' system settings and set up an environment variable CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1 to test

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-21 Thread Andrey Repin
why it skips all the package checks, and why it complains about things like awk not found. You don't need mintty to run cygwin. Open a cmd prompt and do C:\Cygwin\bin\bash -i --login (Or wherever you installed Cygwin). Don't even need a cmd prompt. You can just start bash. -- WBR, Andrey

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
:\cygwin\bin isn’t in the path. This is also why it skips all the package checks, and why it complains about things like awk not found. You don't need mintty to run cygwin. Open a cmd prompt and do C:\Cygwin\bin\bash -i --login (Or wherever you installed Cygwin). Don't even need a cmd prompt

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-21 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 11/21/2014 7:58 PM, Warren Young wrote: Warning: cygwin1.dll not found on your path this is curious It’s happening because he’s not running cygcheck under Cygwin, since Cygwin won’t start on his system. Hence, c:\cygwin\bin isn’t in the path. This is also why it skips all the package

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-20 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 19, 2014, at 2:12 PM, pichi032 . perron...@gmail.com wrote: Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics I’m afraid it all looks quite normal to me. I can only suggest voodoo: 1. Install to a different directory. If this works, you can try a forced reinstall to the one you actually wanted to

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-19 Thread pichi032 .
OK mintty 1.2-beta1-1OK p11-kit 0.20.7-1 OK p11-kit-trust0.20.7-1 OK popt 1.16-1 OK rebase 4.4.1-1OK run 1.3.3-1OK sed 4.2.2-3

Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-18 Thread pichi032 .
I just read about cygwin and decided to give it a go.. Installed the 64-bit version on Windows 8.1 with default settings but as soon as I click the Desktop Icon it opens a shell but it immediately closes.. like a glimpse .. I believe that should be Mintty. The path on the shortcut is the following

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-18 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 18, 2014, at 7:56 PM, pichi032 . perron...@gmail.com wrote: D:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -l /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - What happens if you run that from cmd.exe instead? If nothing else, you should get some error message that will stick around, so you can copy it into a reply. -- Problem

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-18 Thread pichi032 .
a shell but it immediately closes.. like a glimpse .. I believe that should be Mintty. The path on the shortcut is the following : D:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -l /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - any ideas on how to fix this odd issue ? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-18 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:09 PM, pichi032 . perron...@gmail.com wrote: same thing.. it glimpses and closes on my face. How about this, then? d:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe /bin/bash -c /bin/sleep 5 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-18 Thread pichi032 .
Still the same thing.. and no.. I'm not playing around with u.. =/ On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:09 PM, pichi032 . perron...@gmail.com wrote: same thing.. it glimpses and closes on my face. How about this, then?

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-18 Thread pichi032 .
strange thing is that bash works. On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:24 AM, pichi032 . perron...@gmail.com wrote: Still the same thing.. and no.. I'm not playing around with u.. =/ On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:09 PM, pichi032 .

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-18 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:24 PM, pichi032 . perron...@gmail.com wrote: Still the same thing.. In that case, run this from cmd.exe d:\cygwin\bin\cygcheck -rsv cygcheck.out Then attach the resulting cygcheck.out file to a reply. Something is broken in your installation. This command’s

Re: mintty: WINCH-signal to child

2014-10-28 Thread Linda Walsh
, or the terminal should walk through the call-tree. Both not very likely to happen. xterm does the same as mintty BTW. There must be something more about it: Mined does resend a received SIGWINCH to its parent (as an application should indeed) and it's actually received by bash as can be confirmed

Re: mintty: WINCH-signal to child

2014-10-19 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:02:33PM +0100, Helmut Karlowski wrote: When I run for example an editor from a shell in a mintty-window and change the window-size the editor is informed by a WINCH-signal. That is good. But the shell it was started from does not know about the change, so after

Re: mintty: WINCH-signal to child

2014-10-19 Thread Helmut Karlowski
to happen. xterm does the same as mintty BTW. Thanks, Helmut -- -- 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: mintty: WINCH-signal to child

2014-10-19 Thread Thomas Wolff
walk through the call-tree. Both not very likely to happen. xterm does the same as mintty BTW. There must be something more about it: Mined does resend a received SIGWINCH to its parent (as an application should indeed) and it's actually received by bash as can be confirmed with 'trap echo WINCH

mintty: WINCH-signal to child

2014-10-18 Thread Helmut Karlowski
When I run for example an editor from a shell in a mintty-window and change the window-size the editor is informed by a WINCH-signal. That is good. But the shell it was started from does not know about the change, so after exiting the editor the shell uses the old size. Could mintty send

Re: Starting mintty via run.exe

2014-10-17 Thread Eliot Moss
On 10/16/2014 11:51 PM, John Wiersba wrote: So maybe you want: run /bin/bash -c /path/to/hashbang/script This worked for me with a trival mintty-starting hash-bang bash script. I found your reply on the mailing list archives and quoted it above. Yes, the same approach worked for me (in my

Starting mintty via run.exe

2014-10-16 Thread John Wiersba
I'm trying to create a windows shortcut which will start mintty indirectlyby running a (perl) script which will exec mintty. I know I can start mintty.exe directly via the shortcut, but the purpose of my script is to wrap the invocation in the proper environment and arguments. I'm

Re: Starting mintty via run.exe

2014-10-16 Thread Eliot Moss
On 10/16/2014 10:44 AM, John Wiersba wrote: I'm trying to create a windows shortcut which will start mintty indirectlyby running a (perl) script which will exec mintty. I know I can start mintty.exe directly via the shortcut, but the purpose of my script is to wrap the invocation

Starting mintty via run.exe

2014-10-16 Thread John Wiersba
I'm trying to create a Windows shortcut which will start mintty indirectly by running a (perl) script which will exec mintty. I know I can start mintty.exe directly via the shortcut, but the purpose of my script is to wrap the invocation in the proper environment and arguments. I'm

Re: Starting mintty via run.exe

2014-10-16 Thread Eliot Moss
On 10/16/2014 3:43 PM, John Wiersba wrote: I'm trying to create a Windows shortcut which will start mintty indirectly by running a (perl) script which will exec mintty. I know I can start mintty.exe directly via the shortcut, but the purpose of my script is to wrap the invocation

Re: Starting mintty via run.exe

2014-10-16 Thread John Wiersba
...@cs.umass.edu To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: jrw32...@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 7:34 PM Subject: Re: Starting mintty via run.exe On 10/16/2014 3:43 PM, John Wiersba wrote: I'm trying to create a Windows shortcut which will start mintty indirectly by running a (perl) script which

Re: Starting mintty via run.exe

2014-10-16 Thread John Wiersba
- Original Message - From: Eliot Moss m...@cs.umass.edu To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Starting mintty via run.exe I think it may be designed to deal only with actual executables (.exe files). The wording of the man page is ambiguous, but suggestive of this in that it speaks

python3 and mintty: why ANSI_X3.4-1968 encoding

2014-08-29 Thread Frédéric Bron
I am using mintty with option Text.locale=fr_FR and Character set=UTF-8 Why, then, python3 reports a different encoding (ANSI_X3.4-1968) for stdout and stdin? $ cat toto.py import sys print(sys.stdin.encoding) print(sys.stdout.encoding) $ python3 toto.py ANSI_X3.4-1968 ANSI_X3.4-1968 Thanks

Re: python3 and mintty: why ANSI_X3.4-1968 encoding

2014-08-29 Thread Frédéric Bron
I am using mintty with option Text.locale=fr_FR and Character set=UTF-8 Why, then, python3 reports a different encoding (ANSI_X3.4-1968) for stdout and stdin? I found the issue: I had LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 and at the same time LC_ALL=C I removed LC_ALL=C and my python3 script works with UTF-8 i/o

Re: setting character set in mintty

2014-07-09 Thread Pawel Jasinski
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Andrey Repin anrdae...@yandex.ru wrote: Greetings, Pawel Jasinski! The way I understand it, mintty sets the LANG variable according to user settings. Would it make sense for mintty to invoke cmd /c chcp selected (SetConsoleOutputCP)? mintty does not use

Subject: Re: setting character set in mintty

2014-07-08 Thread Pawel Jasinski
The way I understand it, mintty sets the LANG variable according to user settings. Would it make sense for mintty to invoke cmd /c chcp selected (SetConsoleOutputCP)? mintty does not use the console at all. A chcp call doesn't make any sense. Sorry for asking stupid question. My knowledge

setting character set in mintty

2014-07-08 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Pawel Jasinski! The way I understand it, mintty sets the LANG variable according to user settings. Would it make sense for mintty to invoke cmd /c chcp selected (SetConsoleOutputCP)? mintty does not use the console at all. A chcp call doesn't make any sense. Sorry for asking

Re: setting character set in mintty

2014-07-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 7 00:16, Pawel Jasinski wrote: The way I understand it, mintty sets the LANG variable according to user settings. Would it make sense for mintty to invoke cmd /c chcp selected (SetConsoleOutputCP)? mintty does not use the console at all. A chcp call doesn't make any sense. Corinna

setting character set in mintty

2014-07-06 Thread Pawel Jasinski
The way I understand it, mintty sets the LANG variable according to user settings. Would it make sense for mintty to invoke cmd /c chcp selected (SetConsoleOutputCP)? In case of no. Would it make sense to place a hint in a .bashrc about it? --pawel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Nice detective work, really. The goldstar is well deservered :) On May 15 04:00, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I quickly worked out that the code has a bug for %i. At some point the code was changed to push and pop the parameters being passed (0 and 39 in my eg.). However, the %i select/case block

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 2014-05-15 04:15+1000, Andrew Schulman wrote: snip snip I can't understand why the ./conftest.exe differ. Trying to emulate by hand, I cannot reproduce it. But it is now very late here, and I can't debug anymore. I'm hoping that I've provided enough of a lead for someone of authority

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-15 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Corinna, On 2014-05-15 17:17+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Nice detective work, really. The goldstar is well deservered :) On May 15 04:00, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I quickly worked out that the code has a bug for %i. At some point the code was changed to push and pop the parameters being

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 15 22:54, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi Corinna, On 2014-05-15 17:17+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Nice detective work, really. The goldstar is well deservered :) On May 15 04:00, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I quickly worked out that the code has a bug for %i. At some point the code was

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
In any case, I've tested the patch below, and it solves the immediate problem with screen. It probably needs to go upstream too... I'd put my hand up, but I'm unsure where upstream is exactly. I've uploaded a new test release of screen that incorporates this patch. So we'll see if it fixes the

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-14 Thread Shaddy Baddah
H, On 2014-05-15 02:46+0100, Andrew Schulman wrote: snip/ The problem only occurs with screen on 64-bit Cygwin. The 32-bit appears to work correctly. The problem is that when screen is run in mintty, it seems to exclude the bottom line, reducing the actual size of the buffer. Further

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-14 Thread Andrew Schulman
snip The 32-bit defines TERMINFO: config.h: /* * Define TERMINFO if your machine emulates the termcap routines * with the terminfo database. * Thus the .screenrc file is parsed for * the command 'terminfo' and not 'termcap'. */ #define TERMINFO 1 configure.log:

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 02:15:38PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: snip The 32-bit defines TERMINFO: config.h: /* * Define TERMINFO if your machine emulates the termcap routines * with the terminfo database. * Thus the .screenrc file is parsed for * the command 'terminfo' and not

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-14 Thread Andrew Schulman
I'm hoping that I've provided enough of a lead for someone of authority to decide where things are right, and where things are wrong. Yes, I think so! Thanks a lot, Shaddy. That takes us a long way to a solution. I'll look at it from there as soon as I can. Andrew suggested that

screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-12 Thread Shaddy Baddah
is that when screen is run in mintty, it seems to exclude the bottom line, reducing the actual size of the buffer. Further, something goes awry at the top. So that if you run emacs -nw or less from within, scrolling via the keys acts very strangely. If you detach or simply exit the screen session

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
appears to work correctly. The problem is that when screen is run in mintty, it seems to exclude the bottom line, reducing the actual size of the buffer. Further, something goes awry at the top. So that if you run emacs -nw or less from within, scrolling via the keys acts very strangely. If you

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

2014-05-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
. The problem is that when screen is run in mintty, it seems to exclude the bottom line, reducing the actual size of the buffer. Further, something goes awry at the top. So that if you run emacs -nw or less from within, scrolling via the keys acts very strangely. If you detach or simply exit

Re: setting cygwin terminal (mintty) title from a very remote system

2014-04-14 Thread David Conrad
it: echo -ne \e[0;This is a test\a; sleep 5 That way, the title, if it's getting set at all, will remain set for a few seconds before it gets reset, so you can see it. That will allow you to tell the difference between a problem where the escape sequence is never reaching mintty because something

Re: setting cygwin terminal (mintty) title from a very remote system

2014-04-14 Thread Ross Boylan
[0;This is a test\a; sleep 5 That way, the title, if it's getting set at all, will remain set for a few seconds before it gets reset, so you can see it. That will allow you to tell the difference between a problem where the escape sequence is never reaching mintty because something is eating

setting cygwin terminal (mintty) title from a very remote system

2014-04-11 Thread Ross Boylan
to support manually setting the title; this was rejected on the grounds that echoing an appropriate sequence would do the same thing (http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=241). Unfortunately, that does not seem to be true after connecting to a remote system, or at least it is not true

Re: setting cygwin terminal (mintty) title from a very remote system

2014-04-11 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
prompt is ineffective. If I start a new shell from within screen (Ctl-a c), the echo command works from there. Fundamentally, this is nothing to do with Cygwin. MinTTY will change the terminal title if it receives the escape sequence to do so. The title will stay the same if something intercepts

Re: setting cygwin terminal (mintty) title from a very remote system

2014-04-11 Thread Duncan Roe
not connecting via cygwin. Ross Boylan Someone put in a request for a feature to support manually setting the title; this was rejected on the grounds that echoing an appropriate sequence would do the same thing (http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=241). Unfortunately, that does not seem

Re: cannot open mintty as adminstrator

2014-03-11 Thread Lester Ingber
Well, that problem happened all day yesterday. Today there is no such problem. I have not done anything on the system since then, but that is the situation today. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

RE: file path resolution in DOS window vs mintty window

2014-01-26 Thread Steven Bardwell
On 1/25/2014 3:04 PM, Steven Bardwell wrote: I would like to understand why Cygwin style paths do not work in a CMD (DOS) window on my 32-bit Cygwin system, but work fine on my 64-bit Cygwin install. Here is a simple example of the issue: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include

Re: mintty shell gets frequent 8~ strings inserted into input

2014-01-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/24/2014 9:40 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 12:14 PM Subject: Re: mintty shell gets frequent 8~ strings inserted into input On 1/24/2014 2:57 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent

Re: mintty shell gets frequent 8~ strings inserted into input

2014-01-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/25/2014 5:27 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 1/24/2014 9:40 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 12:14 PM Subject: Re: mintty shell gets frequent 8~ strings inserted into input On 1/24/2014 2:57 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote

Re: file path resolution in DOS window vs mintty window

2014-01-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/25/2014 3:04 PM, Steven Bardwell wrote: I would like to understand why Cygwin style paths do not work in a CMD (DOS) window on my 32-bit Cygwin system, but work fine on my 64-bit Cygwin install. Here is a simple example of the issue: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include string.h

Re: file path resolution in DOS window vs mintty window

2014-01-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Larry Hall (Cygwin)! I would like to understand why Cygwin style paths do not work in a CMD (DOS) window on my 32-bit Cygwin system, but work fine on my 64-bit Cygwin install. Here is a simple example of the issue: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include string.h #include

mintty shell gets frequent 8~ strings inserted into input

2014-01-24 Thread KARR, DAVID
I'm on Cygwin 1.7.26 on Win7. I run mintty with C:\Cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/bash --login. Every minute or so, or randomly, my mintty shell prompt gets the string 8~ inserted. If I leave the shell there, it will end up with a string of them. What might be causing this? -- Problem

Re: mintty shell gets frequent 8~ strings inserted into input

2014-01-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/24/2014 2:00 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: I'm on Cygwin 1.7.26 on Win7. I run mintty with C:\Cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/bash --login. Every minute or so, or randomly, my mintty shell prompt gets the string 8~ inserted. If I leave the shell there, it will end up with a string of them. What

RE: mintty shell gets frequent 8~ strings inserted into input

2014-01-24 Thread KARR, DAVID
-Original Message- Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 11:35 AM Subject: Re: mintty shell gets frequent 8~ strings inserted into input On 1/24/2014 2:00 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: I'm on Cygwin 1.7.26 on Win7. I run mintty with C:\Cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/bash

Re: mintty shell gets frequent 8~ strings inserted into input

2014-01-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/24/2014 2:57 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 11:35 AM Subject: Re: mintty shell gets frequent 8~ strings inserted into input On 1/24/2014 2:00 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: I'm on Cygwin 1.7.26 on Win7. I run mintty with C

Re: mintty shell gets frequent 8~ strings inserted into input

2014-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:57:46PM +, KARR, DAVID wrote: On Friday, January 24, 2014 11:35 AM, Larry Hall wrote: On 1/24/2014 2:00 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: I'm on Cygwin 1.7.26 on Win7. I run mintty with C:\Cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/bash --login. Every minute or so, or randomly, my mintty

Re: mintty shell gets frequent 8~ strings inserted into input

2014-01-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 03:19:58PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:57:46PM +, KARR, DAVID wrote: On Friday, January 24, 2014 11:35 AM, Larry Hall wrote: On 1/24/2014 2:00 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: I'm on Cygwin 1.7.26 on Win7. I run mintty with C:\Cygwin\bin

RE: mintty shell gets frequent 8~ strings inserted into input

2014-01-24 Thread KARR, DAVID
-Original Message- Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 12:14 PM Subject: Re: mintty shell gets frequent 8~ strings inserted into input On 1/24/2014 2:57 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 11:35 AM

Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-12-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 2 23:58, Charles Butterfield wrote: -Original Message- From: Dave Kilroy [mailto:BZ] http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR On 01/12/2013 21:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Are you starting mintty with run as administrator by any chance? Corrina's right - check

Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-12-03 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 03/12/2013 10:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 2 23:58, Charles Butterfield wrote: Any suggestions on how to have a shortcut (or something similar) that runs mintty as admin, but has no global effect on other mintty launches? You seem to have gotten something else wrong here

Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-12-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 3 13:13, Dave Kilroy wrote: On 03/12/2013 10:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 2 23:58, Charles Butterfield wrote: Any suggestions on how to have a shortcut (or something similar) that runs mintty as admin, but has no global effect on other mintty launches? You seem to have gotten

Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-12-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 3 14:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 3 13:13, Dave Kilroy wrote: On 03/12/2013 10:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 2 23:58, Charles Butterfield wrote: Any suggestions on how to have a shortcut (or something similar) that runs mintty as admin, but has no global effect

RE: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-12-03 Thread Charles Butterfield
that to execute mintty correctly it needs admin privileges, so it always runs mintty this way. The latter is the one that just affects the shortcut. Dave. Thanks! I had NO idea there were TWO admin checkboxes. Now I have a solution to both of my problems, and I'm feeling happy again :-) OOPS, I suspect

Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-12-02 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 01/12/2013 21:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 1 15:48, Charles Butterfield wrote: -Original Message- From: David Kilroy [mailto:kilr...@googlemail.com] Can you run the following commands from mintty running bash vs cmd running bash: cygpath -u y:\apps test -d /cygdrive/y/apps

RE: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-12-02 Thread Charles Butterfield
-Original Message- From: Dave Kilroy [mailto:kilr...@googlemail.com] On 01/12/2013 21:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Are you starting mintty with run as administrator by any chance? Corrina's right - check that the same user is being used in both cases. I don't think this would explain

Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-12-01 Thread David Kilroy
) but neither variable worked. I then noticed that if I start bash from a cmd.exe emulator (and adjust the path to Include /bin), that I can see (and cd to) a mapped drive. But I cannot see (via ls) the mapped drive when using mintty. From cmd.exe+bash: (Y: is the mapped drive

RE: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-12-01 Thread Charles Butterfield
-Original Message- From: David Kilroy [mailto:kilr...@googlemail.com] Can you run the following commands from mintty running bash vs cmd running bash: cygpath -u y:\apps test -d /cygdrive/y/apps echo $? Result of the first command should be /cygdrive/y/apps 2nd command

Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 1 15:48, Charles Butterfield wrote: -Original Message- From: David Kilroy [mailto:kilr...@googlemail.com] Can you run the following commands from mintty running bash vs cmd running bash: cygpath -u y:\apps test -d /cygdrive/y/apps echo $? Result of the first

Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-11-30 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 29/11/2013 22:11, Charles Butterfield wrote: Dave wrote: Can you clarify which isn't working: a) a network share mapped to a drive letter, e.g N:\my\network\location This is my situation. I have my Y: drive mapped to a Linux Samba server. See more details below b) network share

RE: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-11-30 Thread Charles Butterfield
that if I start bash from a cmd.exe emulator (and adjust the path to Include /bin), that I can see (and cd to) a mapped drive. But I cannot see (via ls) the mapped drive when using mintty. From cmd.exe+bash: (Y: is the mapped drive) $ ls -l

Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-11-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 08:41:35AM +, Dave Kilroy wrote: On 29/11/2013 22:11, Charles Butterfield wrote: In any event, I have cobbled together something that resembles a reply to an email that I have really scraped off the web archive. That seems awfully complicated. Surely I'm missing

Re: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-11-29 Thread Dave Kilroy
mintty -s bash chere -i -2 -t mintty -s bash A related clue is that when using a mintty terminal I cannot see network shares in /cygdrive, but when using the default chere shell I can see the network shares mapped to drives (e.g. /cygdrive/y/...). Any suggestions? Can you clarify which isn't

RE: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-11-29 Thread Charles Butterfield
Dave wrote: Can you clarify which isn't working: a) a network share mapped to a drive letter, e.g N:\my\network\location This is my situation. I have my Y: drive mapped to a Linux Samba server. See more details below b) network share accessed via \\ e.g. \\server\path\my\network\location

FW: Cygwin64 Terminal - Windows is searching for mintty

2013-10-21 Thread Matthias Hettwer
downloaded a version of mintty 1.0.3 from a download site and unzipped all the content but no mintty executable can be found there either. Any suggestions on how to repair the Cygwin setup-x86_64 installation to have mintty ? Sincerely, Matthias Hettwer

Re: FW: Cygwin64 Terminal - Windows is searching for mintty

2013-10-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
, it can't be found anywhere on the hard drive. I downloaded a version of mintty 1.0.3 from a download site and unzipped all the content but no mintty executable can be found there either. Right. This is not a supported way of obtaining and installing a package. It won't work. While it's

Re: Error : Windows is searching for Mintty

2013-09-10 Thread Manoj Navandar
cygwin on Windows 8 64 bit. Packages installation worked fine but it seems Mintty is missing. I reinstalled cygwin setup-x86_64 [version 2.819-64 bit] by adding mintty (both bin and src) under shell tab (1.2-beta-1.1 version), but it seems that error still persists. Target path is - C

Re: Error : Windows is searching for Mintty

2013-09-09 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On 6 September 2013 16:49, Manoj Navandar wrote: I recently installed cygwin on Windows 8 64 bit. Packages installation worked fine but it seems Mintty is missing. I reinstalled cygwin setup-x86_64 [version 2.819-64 bit] by adding mintty (both bin and src) under shell tab (1.2-beta-1.1 version

Error : Windows is searching for Mintty

2013-09-06 Thread Manoj Navandar
Hello Team, I recently installed cygwin on Windows 8 64 bit. Packages installation worked fine but it seems Mintty is missing. I reinstalled cygwin setup-x86_64 [version 2.819-64 bit] by adding mintty (both bin and src) under shell tab (1.2-beta-1.1 version), but it seems that error still

64-bit Cygwin - Missing packages and mintty issue

2013-09-04 Thread Bogdan
Hi, I've just installed the 64-bit Cygwin port but encountered a few problems. First of all, there seems to be a problem with the mintty package. While it's marked as installed in the setup, /bin/mintty does not exist so I cannot fire up the terminal. I suspect the package has not been

Re: 64-bit Cygwin - Missing packages and mintty issue

2013-09-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 11:07:07PM -0700, Bogdan wrote: Hi, I've just installed the 64-bit Cygwin port but encountered a few problems. First of all, there seems to be a problem with the mintty package. While it's marked as installed in the setup, /bin/mintty does not exist so I cannot fire up

Re: 64-bit Cygwin - Missing packages and mintty issue

2013-09-04 Thread marco atzeri
Il 9/4/2013 8:07 AM, Bogdan ha scritto: Hi, I've just installed the 64-bit Cygwin port but encountered a few problems. wrong mailing list for problems use cygwin (at) cygwin.com First of all, there seems to be a problem with the mintty package. While it's marked as installed in the setup

Re: Disabling focus reporting in mintty

2013-09-03 Thread John Koelndorfer
26.08.2013 22:54, schrieb John Koelndorfer: I seem to have run into some trouble with focus reporting in mintty 1.1.2 and tmux 1.8 running on a remote Arch Linux host. tmux does not seem to catch the focus reporting control characters properly and will allow the ^[[O and ^[[I to bleed through

Re: Disabling focus reporting in mintty

2013-08-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
, schrieb John Koelndorfer: I seem to have run into some trouble with focus reporting in mintty 1.1.2 and tmux 1.8 running on a remote Arch Linux host. tmux does not seem to catch the focus reporting control characters properly and will allow the ^[[O and ^[[I to bleed through to applications. Here

Re: Disabling focus reporting in mintty

2013-08-27 Thread John Koelndorfer
26.08.2013 22:54, schrieb John Koelndorfer: I seem to have run into some trouble with focus reporting in mintty 1.1.2 and tmux 1.8 running on a remote Arch Linux host. tmux does not seem to catch the focus reporting control characters properly and will allow the ^[[O and ^[[I to bleed through

Disabling focus reporting in mintty

2013-08-26 Thread John Koelndorfer
I seem to have run into some trouble with focus reporting in mintty 1.1.2 and tmux 1.8 running on a remote Arch Linux host. tmux does not seem to catch the focus reporting control characters properly and will allow the ^[[O and ^[[I to bleed through to applications. Here is how I have tested

Re: Disabling focus reporting in mintty

2013-08-26 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 26.08.2013 22:54, schrieb John Koelndorfer: I seem to have run into some trouble with focus reporting in mintty 1.1.2 and tmux 1.8 running on a remote Arch Linux host. tmux does not seem to catch the focus reporting control characters properly and will allow the ^[[O and ^[[I to bleed

Re: mintty functionality

2013-08-25 Thread d.henman
David, thanks for your advice. It didn't run right off the bat, but with some proper single and double quoting. The fact that env takes a command as an argument is what enabled it to work. Cheers. The normal way works and even $ PATH=${PATH}: mintty cmd The command line

mintty functionality

2013-08-24 Thread wynfield
I am attempting to create a desktop icon for cygwin based applicatin. I am using mkshortcut and mintty with the program to be invoked's name as am argument to mintty. The problem I'm encountering is that the applicatin that mintty is to run requires /usr/lib/lapack which

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