Re: Re: Black screen running startx

2024-03-17 Thread Frank Eskesen via Cygwin
Easy to see problem symptom: When running xinit, the full-screen window has a white border. I have an older machine with an "ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770" graphics card. The problem was either with the NVIDIA Windows display driver or some underlying Windows update. Fixing it was

Re: Black screen running startx

2024-03-16 Thread Frank Eskesen via Cygwin
When I ran xinit, I got the following events in the Windows event log:    Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered. Kernel diagnostic event: = Fault bucket LKD_0x141_Tdr:6_IMAGE_nvlddmkm.sys_Kepler_3D, type 0

[ANNOUNCEMENT] screen 4.9.1-1

2023-08-27 Thread Andrew Schulman via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin
screen 4.9.1-1 is now available in Cygwin. This release includes bug fixes and documentation updates. See the release announcement[1] and upstream changelog[2] for more details. Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically

Re: Kernel stack trace for Winows 10 blue screen when running Cygwin?

2023-08-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Aug 7 12:43, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 at 11:55, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > > > On Aug 7 11:29, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > > > Forwarding to cygwin@cygwin.com > > > > > > Honestly I find it deeply concerning that a plain, unprivileged user > > > can B

Re: Kernel stack trace for Winows 10 blue screen when running Cygwin?

2023-08-07 Thread Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 at 11:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 7 11:29, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > > Forwarding to cygwin@cygwin.com > > > > Honestly I find it deeply concerning that a plain, unprivileged user > > can Bluescreen a machine, and more so that it happens during normal > > C

Re: Kernel stack trace for Winows 10 blue screen when running Cygwin?

2023-08-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
message - > From: Cedric Blancher > Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2023 at 23:56 > Subject: Kernel stack trace for Winows 10 blue screen when running Cygwin? > To: > > > Good evening! > > How can we get a Windows kernel stack trace for a blue screen - aka > Windows kernel c

Fwd: Kernel stack trace for Winows 10 blue screen when running Cygwin?

2023-08-07 Thread Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
stack trace for Winows 10 blue screen when running Cygwin? To: Good evening! How can we get a Windows kernel stack trace for a blue screen - aka Windows kernel crash? We're experiencing regular blue screens when we run Cygwin git operations for a large repository (~6GB of text files, so

cygwin/X shown onlay a blank screen

2023-05-11 Thread Nico Hoffmann via Cygwin
hello, I did a cygwin installation on my employers laptop and have issues with cygwin/X Xwin with xfce starts and opens a window, but without any content. It is only light grey and does not react on any mouse clicks. The windows task manager however shows that Xwin/xfce is running and that al

[ANNOUNCEMENT] screen-4.9.0-1

2022-02-18 Thread Andrew Schulman via Cygwin-announce
screen 4.9.0-1 is now available in Cygwin. This release includes several bug fixes, including for a possible denial of service by a crafted UTF-8 character sequence. Everyone is urged to upgrade to this release. See the release announcement[1] and upstream changelog[2] for more details. Screen

Re: Screen clearing in CMD without "Legacy Console Mode"

2021-05-06 Thread Takashi Yano via Cygwin
On Thu, 6 May 2021 18:12:38 +0900 Takashi Yano via Cygwin> wrote: > On Wed, 5 May 2021 15:07:04 +0200 (CEST) > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Kevin Locke wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2021-04-30 at 23:53 +0900, Takashi Yano wrote: > > > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 08:25:12 -

Re: Screen clearing in CMD without "Legacy Console Mode"

2021-05-06 Thread Takashi Yano via Cygwin
On Wed, 5 May 2021 15:07:04 +0200 (CEST) Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Kevin Locke wrote: > > > On Fri, 2021-04-30 at 23:53 +0900, Takashi Yano wrote: > > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 08:25:12 -0600 Kevin Locke wrote: > > >> I'm investigating an issue in Git for Windows[^1],

Re: Screen clearing in CMD without "Legacy Console Mode"

2021-05-05 Thread Johannes Schindelin via Cygwin
Hi, On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Kevin Locke wrote: > On Fri, 2021-04-30 at 23:53 +0900, Takashi Yano wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 08:25:12 -0600 Kevin Locke wrote: > >> I'm investigating an issue in Git for Windows[^1], which also affects > >> Cygwin. The issue is that, when using CMD (i.e. Command P

Re: Screen clearing in CMD without "Legacy Console Mode"

2021-04-30 Thread Jack Adrian Zappa via Cygwin
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 1:31 PM Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote: > Why on earth do you want to set TERM=cygwin? > If you don't set TERM=cygwin, TERM is automatically set to > xterm-256color, in which the issue does not occur. > Might be because for the longest time, if you didn't set it to cygwin,

Re: Screen clearing in CMD without "Legacy Console Mode"

2021-04-30 Thread Takashi Yano via Cygwin
; >> SetConsoleMode(ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_INPUT)[^3] to behave like > >> xterm-256color when supported[^4] (they are not supported in "Legacy > >> Console Mode"). > >> > >> I'm not too familiar with TTY/PTY handling, much less Cygwin on top of

Re: Screen clearing in CMD without "Legacy Console Mode"

2021-04-30 Thread Brian Inglis
ehave like xterm-256color when supported[^4] (they are not supported in "Legacy Console Mode"). I'm not too familiar with TTY/PTY handling, much less Cygwin on top of CMD. It's not clear to me if the alternate screen buffer behaves differently in CMD than xterm, whether Cygwin has

Re: Screen clearing in CMD without "Legacy Console Mode"

2021-04-30 Thread Kevin Locke via Cygwin
On Fri, 2021-04-30 at 23:53 +0900, Takashi Yano wrote: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 08:25:12 -0600 Kevin Locke wrote: >> I'm investigating an issue in Git for Windows[^1], which also affects >> Cygwin. The issue is that, when using CMD (i.e. Command Prompt) on >> Windows 10 1703 or above with "Legacy Con

Re: Screen clearing in CMD without "Legacy Console Mode"

2021-04-30 Thread Takashi Yano via Cygwin
leMode(ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_INPUT)[^3] to behave like > xterm-256color when supported[^4] (they are not supported in "Legacy > Console Mode"). > > I'm not too familiar with TTY/PTY handling, much less Cygwin on top of > CMD. It's not clear to me if the alte

Screen clearing in CMD without "Legacy Console Mode"

2021-04-30 Thread Kevin Locke via Cygwin
I'm not too familiar with TTY/PTY handling, much less Cygwin on top of CMD. It's not clear to me if the alternate screen buffer behaves differently in CMD than xterm, whether Cygwin has any responsibility, or if the issue is in how CMD handles ANSI escape sequences. Johannes Schindelin sugg

Re: gnu screen crashes on ssh disconnect

2020-03-17 Thread Andrew Schulman via Cygwin
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:01:41 -0700 > Wayne Davison wrote: > > In recent Cygwin versions I've had gnu screen crash if the parent ssh > > connection closes before an explicit disconnect is performed. Thanks for reporting. I don't have any Cygwin hosts set up as ssh

Re: gnu screen crashes on ssh disconnect

2020-03-12 Thread Takashi Yano via Cygwin
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:01:41 -0700 Wayne Davison wrote: > In recent Cygwin versions I've had gnu screen crash if the parent ssh > connection closes before an explicit disconnect is performed. If an > orderly screen disconnect happens first, future closed connections > (after re

gnu screen crashes on ssh disconnect

2020-03-12 Thread Wayne Davison
In recent Cygwin versions I've had gnu screen crash if the parent ssh connection closes before an explicit disconnect is performed. If an orderly screen disconnect happens first, future closed connections (after reconnecting to the screen session) no longer crash screen. To reproduce: I ssh

[ANNOUNCEMENT] screen 4.8.0-1

2020-02-06 Thread Andrew Schulman via cygwin
screen 4.8.0-1 is now available in Cygwin. This release includes several bug fixes, including a fix for a memory overwrite that could be a security vulnerability. Everyone is urged to upgrade to this release. See the release announcement[1] and upstream changelog[2] for more details. Screen is a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] screen-4.7.0-1

2019-10-03 Thread Andrew Schulman via cygwin
screen-4.7.0-1 is now available in Cygwin. This release includes lots of small fixes and documentation improvements. See the upstream changelog[1] for details. This release also includes a small change to the default /etc/screenrc, reported to fix a screen corruption problem for some users, that

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] screen-4.6.2-3 (test)

2019-04-22 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 16/4/19 11:40 pm, Andrew Schulman wrote: screen-4.6.2-3 is now available as a test release in Cygwin. This release includes a small change to the default /etc/screenrc, that has been reported to fix a screen corruption problem that some users - okay, Shaddy :) - have reported after

[ANNOUNCEMENT] screen-4.6.2-3 (test)

2019-04-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
screen-4.6.2-3 is now available as a test release in Cygwin. This release includes a small change to the default /etc/screenrc, that has been reported to fix a screen corruption problem that some users - okay, Shaddy :) - have reported after detaching from screen[1,2]. If you're a screen

Re: *cause of* screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
- Original Message - | From: "Thomas Dickey" | To: "Thomas Wolff" | Cc: "cygwin" | Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 7:06:22 PM | Subject: Re: *cause of* screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit | - Original Message - || From: "Thom

Re: *cause of* screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
- Original Message - | From: "Thomas Wolff" | To: "cygwin" | Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 5:51:34 PM | Subject: Re: *cause of* screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit | Hi Thomas, | | Thomas Dickey wrote: |> - Original Message - |> | From

Re: *cause of* screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-11 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 11.04.2019 um 14:12 schrieb Andrew Schulman: Am 10.04.2019 um 17:04 schrieb Andrew Schulman: Hi Shaddy. There you go again. The reason seems to be that the Debian screen package packages a custom /etc/screenrc that does not include this explicit term capability: # # Do not use xterms

Re: *cause of* screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-11 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Am 10.04.2019 um 17:04 schrieb Andrew Schulman: > > Hi Shaddy. There you go again. > > > >> The reason seems to be that the Debian screen package packages a custom > >> /etc/screenrc that does not include this explicit term capability: > >> > >&g

Re: *cause of* screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
Hi Thomas, Thomas Dickey wrote: - Original Message - | From: "Shaddy Baddah" | To: "cygwin" | Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 11:18:19 PM | Subject: Re: *cause of* screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit | On 9/4/19 4:07 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: |> |&g

Re: *cause of* screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
- Original Message - | From: "Shaddy Baddah" | To: "cygwin" | Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 11:18:19 PM | Subject: Re: *cause of* screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit | On 9/4/19 4:07 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: |> |> This helped with screen wh

Re: *cause of* screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 10.04.2019 um 17:04 schrieb Andrew Schulman: Hi Shaddy. There you go again. The reason seems to be that the Debian screen package packages a custom /etc/screenrc that does not include this explicit term capability: # # Do not use xterms alternate window buffer. # This one would not add

Re: *cause of* screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
Hi Shaddy. There you go again. > The reason seems to be that the Debian screen package packages a custom > /etc/screenrc that does not include this explicit term capability: > > > # > # Do not use xterms alternate window buffer. > # This one would not add lines to

Re: *cause of* screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-09 Thread Shaddy Baddah
On 9/4/19 4:07 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: This helped with screen when using Putty to a Cygwin ssh session. For some reason, it isn't helping for running screen locally in a mintty session. And it's not mintty either, because I can ssh to a Debian stretch server within mintty and I c

Re: *spoke to soon to a* Workaround to screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 9/4/19 3:37 pm, Shaddy Baddah wrote: I confirmed this by turning off the default "login" mode for a new session, which averted attempts to manage utmp entries, and therefore avoided the "utmp slot not found" message. I did this by launching a session via: screen -

Workaround to screen writing over restored buffer on detach/exit

2019-04-08 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, So I've had an issue with screen for some years now. I do remember noticing its introduction, but I no longer can remember when that actually happened. As per the subject, I find that when I detach or exit a screen session the cursor ends up part way up the restored buffer, intermi

Re: Problem of login (Re: GNU screen and tmux cannot read tty input if they are started in a telnet session)

2019-03-16 Thread Takashi Yano
Hi Corinna, On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 16:34:41 +0100 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Pushed and new release uploaded. I confirmed that the issue has been fixed in login 1.13-1. Thank you very much! -- Takashi Yano -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cyg

Re: Problem of login (Re: GNU screen and tmux cannot read tty input if they are started in a telnet session)

2019-03-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
0 Takashi Yano wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I would like to propose a patch attached for login package. > > > > > > This fixes the issue that GNU screen and tmux cannot read tty input > > > if they are started in a telnet session. > >

Re: Problem of login (Re: GNU screen and tmux cannot read tty input if they are started in a telnet session)

2019-03-16 Thread Takashi Yano
ropose a patch attached for login package. > > > > This fixes the issue that GNU screen and tmux cannot read tty input > > if they are started in a telnet session. > > > > This issue is due to the ownership of tty. With login 1.12-1, tty > > is owned by cyg_se

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] screen 4.6.2-2

2019-03-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andrew Schulman! > screen 4.6.2-2 is now available in Cygwin. This is a Cygwin-only release that > fixes a long-standing problem: screen -ls and screen -Q would hang in Cygwin. > They both work now. See the discussion at > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2019-03/msg00140.html.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] screen 4.6.2-2

2019-03-11 Thread Andrew Schulman
screen 4.6.2-2 is now available in Cygwin. This is a Cygwin-only release that fixes a long-standing problem: screen -ls and screen -Q would hang in Cygwin. They both work now. See the discussion at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2019-03/msg00140.html. And a GOLD STAR each to Corinna and Takashi for

Problem of login (Re: GNU screen and tmux cannot read tty input if they are started in a telnet session)

2019-03-09 Thread Takashi Yano
I try to clarify the title a little. On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 10:35:13 +0900 Takashi Yano wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to propose a patch attached for login package. > > This fixes the issue that GNU screen and tmux cannot read tty input > if they are started in a telnet sessio

GNU screen and tmux cannot read tty input if they are started in a telnet session

2019-03-08 Thread Takashi Yano
Hello, I would like to propose a patch attached for login package. This fixes the issue that GNU screen and tmux cannot read tty input if they are started in a telnet session. This issue is due to the ownership of tty. With login 1.12-1, tty is owned by cyg_server after logging in via telnet

LED Display screen outdoor and indoor

2018-12-21 Thread sal...@landsignalled.info
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Re: Cannot use screen when Cygwin is installed on a FAT32 filesystem / chmod does not work on FAT32 directories

2018-10-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
win.bat, I am greeted with the > following error when attempting to call 'screen -ls': > > > $ screen -ls > > Directory /tmp/uscreens/S-MyUserName must have mode 700. > > Note that at this point the /tmp/uscreens directory has been created for > the first time

Cannot use screen when Cygwin is installed on a FAT32 filesystem / chmod does not work on FAT32 directories

2018-09-30 Thread Matt D.
the following error when attempting to call 'screen -ls': > $ screen -ls > Directory /tmp/uscreens/S-MyUserName must have mode 700. Note that at this point the /tmp/uscreens directory has been created for the first time. Closing this terminal, reopening it, and calling &#x

Re: problem with Windows 8.1 on-screen keyboard (tablet) and Alt-Gr-Keys in mintty

2018-09-02 Thread Thomas Wolff
[cleaning up my mailbox I found this 3-years old but ananswered issue] Am 01.06.2015 um 16:59 schrieb Richard Czech: On a tablet running Windows 8.1pro I installed Cygwin 2.0.0 /64. Unfortunately I have issues using the on-screen (virtual) keyboard with Alt-Gr keys from within mintty

Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, L A Walsh! >>> To start with, I need to hook up a PS/2 kbd & mouse >>> to access those, while I could load the megaraid drivers >>> then, >> >> Or rebuild the Win7 disk image with related drivers. >> Been doing that for years myself, but YMMV. > --- > Need to learn how...just h

Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-24 Thread L A Walsh
Andrey Repin wrote: To start with, I need to hook up a PS/2 kbd & mouse to access those, while I could load the megaraid drivers then, Or rebuild the Win7 disk image with related drivers. Been doing that for years myself, but YMMV. --- Need to learn how...just have been more busy w/o

Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, L A Walsh! > David Conrad wrote: >> I think Michel LaBarre's suggestion of running chkdsk and sfc is a >> good one; > --- > I agree...chkdsk indicated something odd in an attribute block, > but I've yet to be able to correct it, since I'm running win7 > on a newer machine that uses USB

Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-22 Thread L A Walsh
Michel LaBarre wrote: If you need a boot environment that knows your hardware, try downloading the backup program Reflect from Macrium - there is a free version. Wouldn't it be more prudent in the long run to make sure the repair-environment builtin to windows and your install disk knows

RE: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-21 Thread Michel LaBarre
repeat steps 3-4 until you get it right... ;-) Michel > -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On > Behalf Of L A Walsh > Sent: May 21, 2018 2:28 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing &

Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-21 Thread L A Walsh
David Conrad wrote: I think Michel LaBarre's suggestion of running chkdsk and sfc is a good one; --- I agree...chkdsk indicated something odd in an attribute block, but I've yet to be able to correct it, since I'm running win7 on a newer machine that uses USB3 and doesn't understand that my RAI

Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-19 Thread David Conrad
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 01:54 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > Very wierd. It triggers so fast, and whatever is causing it, likely > happens on a probe by 'ls' before ls even displays any output. > > I 'can' go into the same directory and do a "echo *" (or better, > printf "%s\n" * --- and that doesn't tr

Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-17 Thread L A Walsh
Michel LaBarre wrote: L A Walsh, Please forgive the following naïve points but since I saw no mention of the easy checks... Did you do a "chkdsk" and "sfc /scannow" at any point to pare out any obvious corruptions? I have done chkdsk and sfc's in the past and both have been clea

RE: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-17 Thread Michel LaBarre
L A Walsh, Please forgive the following naïve points but since I saw no mention of the easy checks... Did you do a "chkdsk" and "sfc /scannow" at any point to pare out any obvious corruptions? (When you chkdsk on C:, you will be asked if you want to do it on reboot since the disk must be offli

Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-17 Thread L A Walsh
Brian Inglis wrote: Run "cygcheck ls" to see if any Windows installs added to your path pick up api-ms-win-core-... intercept dlls e.g. Firefox, Tortoise, etc. --- Nope. I set my path in my login profile: reorder path, filter out dups and empty dirs and use abbreviated paths for some com

Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-17 Thread Brian Inglis
gt; (256KB) > is enabled -- should have dumped in C:\windows\Minidump, but nothing was > there. > > I did try to see the module when the blue screen was up, but > it rebooted too quickly. > >> Do you perhaps have some misbehaving drivers in your system? &

Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-17 Thread L A Walsh
nothing was there. I did try to see the module when the blue screen was up, but it rebooted too quickly. Do you perhaps have some misbehaving drivers in your system? Try clearing up your device manager. SET DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1 && mmc.exe devmgmt.msc --- Didn't see

Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-16 Thread Andrey Repin
er" no admin privs (did a dropmyrights > and verified that I only had traversal priv), of /proc/sys/Global\?\?/, > it will blue screen my system every time. After BSOD, there should be at least aminibump. You can use http://nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html to examine it. > I

Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-15 Thread L A Walsh
Someone else wrote: Hi, just tried that command. There is no BSOD on my system. Windows 10 latest build, Dell laptop with latest Cygwin. Maybe there is an issue with your anti-virus or application firewall? --- (same Disclaimer -- replying to list on email sent to me privately... I w

Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-15 Thread James Darnley
On 2018-05-15 18:22, L A Walsh wrote: > Someone wrote: >> I tried it for the hell of it. It worked ok for me. >> Running windows 10 - build 1803 - >> >> $ uname -a >> CYGWIN_NT-10.0 spiro1 2.9.0(0.318/5/3) 2017-09-12 10:18 x86_64 Cygwin >> >> Running as an normal user - I did not try an admin acct

Re: normal to blue-screen windows when doing 'ls -CF' of /proc/sys/GLOBAL?? (bug? cygcheck attached)

2018-05-15 Thread L A Walsh
Someone wrote: I tried it for the hell of it. It worked ok for me. Running windows 10 - build 1803 - $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-10.0 spiro1 2.9.0(0.318/5/3) 2017-09-12 10:18 x86_64 Cygwin Running as an normal user - I did not try an admin acct. Good luck, someone (FYI -- replying to this

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] screen 4.6.2-1

2017-10-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Greetings, Andrew Schulman! > > >> > screen 4.6.2-1 is now available in Cygwin. This is an upstream bug fix > >> > release. > >> > The release announcement says the release includes: > >> > >> > * Fixes: > >> &g

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] screen 4.6.2-1

2017-10-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andrew Schulman! >> > screen 4.6.2-1 is now available in Cygwin. This is an upstream bug fix >> > release. >> > The release announcement says the release includes: >> >> > * Fixes: >> > - revert changes to cursor positi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] screen 4.6.2-1

2017-10-25 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Greetings, Andrew Schulman! > > > screen 4.6.2-1 is now available in Cygwin. This is an upstream bug fix > > release. > > The release announcement says the release includes: > > > * Fixes: > > - revert changes to cursor position restore behavo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] screen 4.6.2-1

2017-10-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andrew Schulman! > screen 4.6.2-1 is now available in Cygwin. This is an upstream bug fix > release. > The release announcement says the release includes: > * Fixes: > - revert changes to cursor position restore behavour (bug #51832) > - set fre

[ANNOUNCEMENT] screen 4.6.2-1

2017-10-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
screen 4.6.2-1 is now available in Cygwin. This is an upstream bug fix release. The release announcement says the release includes: * Fixes: - revert changes to cursor position restore behavour (bug #51832) - set freed pointer to NULL (bug #52133) - documentation fixes

tar checkpoint-action screen width padding

2017-10-17 Thread Steven Penny
is omitted, the current screen width is assumed. So the issue is either that "%*" is printing 1 too many spaces, or that "\r" is taking up a character when it should not be. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:/

Re: GNU screen trouble

2017-09-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andrey Repin! > # uname -a; screen --version; screen -admS mc-server-session > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 daemon2 2.8.0(0.309/5/3) 2017-04-01 20:47 x86_64 Cygwin > Screen version 4.05.01 (GNU) 25-Feb-17 > # screen -S mc-server-session -Q windows > > If I SEGV the hung child, th

Re: GNU screen trouble

2017-07-21 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andrey Repin! > Greetings, All! > # uname -a; screen --version; screen -admS mc-server-session > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 daemon2 2.8.0(0.309/5/3) 2017-04-01 20:47 x86_64 Cygwin > Screen version 4.05.01 (GNU) 25-Feb-17 > # screen -S mc-server-session -Q windows > Still

[ANNOUNCEMENT] screen 4.6.1-1

2017-07-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
screen 4.6.1-1 is now available in Cygwin. This is an upstream release with bug fixes and minor enhancements. See http://savannah.gnu.org/news/?group_id=4235 for the changelog. screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically

Re: GNU screen trouble

2017-06-18 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! > # uname -a; screen --version; screen -admS mc-server-session > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 daemon2 2.8.0(0.309/5/3) 2017-04-01 20:47 x86_64 Cygwin > Screen version 4.05.01 (GNU) 25-Feb-17 > # screen -S mc-server-session -Q windows > > If I SEGV the hung child, there'

Re: GNU screen trouble

2017-05-30 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 4:27 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > # uname -a; screen --version; screen -admS mc-server-session > > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 daemon2 2.8.0(0.309/5/3) 2017-04-01 20:47 x86_64 Cygwin > > Screen version 4.05.01 (GNU) 25-Feb-17 > > > > # screen -S mc-serv

Re: GNU screen trouble

2017-05-27 Thread Dan Kegel
On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 4:27 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > # uname -a; screen --version; screen -admS mc-server-session > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 daemon2 2.8.0(0.309/5/3) 2017-04-01 20:47 x86_64 Cygwin > Screen version 4.05.01 (GNU) 25-Feb-17 > > # screen -S mc-server-session -Q windows >

GNU screen trouble

2017-05-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! # uname -a; screen --version; screen -admS mc-server-session CYGWIN_NT-6.1 daemon2 2.8.0(0.309/5/3) 2017-04-01 20:47 x86_64 Cygwin Screen version 4.05.01 (GNU) 25-Feb-17 # screen -S mc-server-session -Q windows If I SEGV the hung child, there's a stacktrace, though I don&#

Re: Missing announcements for screen?

2017-05-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote: > > FWIW, I also care about announcements. It's how I monitor whether or not I > > should update. I hope they continue. > > Same here OK, I hear you. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Menus from Fedora virtual machine off screen

2017-05-04 Thread Gulliver Smith
estion or a cygwin X question >> since I upgraded at the same time. >> >> Ever since my Fedora 25 upgrade, the menus from programs running on >> the Linux box using cygwin x as the X server appear off screen at the >> top left. It is impossible to use these menus. > >

Re: Missing announcements for screen?

2017-05-03 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote: > FWIW, I also care about announcements. It's how I monitor whether or not I > should update. I hope they continue. Same here -- Erik -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin

RE: Missing announcements for screen?

2017-05-03 Thread Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
From: Andrew Schulman > ... > I confess to forgetting or just skipping announcements sometimes. It's hard > for > me to tell that anyone cares about them, although I see that you do. I will > try > to do better, though I guess if you don't see one from me you can assume > nothing > important cha

[ANNOUNCEMENT] screen 4.5.1-2

2017-05-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
screen 4.5.1-2 is now available in Cygwin. - For x86, this update applies a small patch that should have no effect, but makes the source code the same as in x86_64. See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-05/msg00018.html for discussion. - For x86_64, there's no change. The version numbe

Re: Missing announcements for screen?

2017-05-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
Hi Shaddy. > So I noticed my recent fresh install of Cygwin has screen 4.5.1-1 > installed. And the most recent release is 4.5.2-1. 4.5.1-2 > Previously, I tracked a problem with screen > (https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00331.html) > and sadly I know how involved

Re: Missing announcements for screen?

2017-05-02 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 03/05/2017 05:23, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, So I noticed my recent fresh install of Cygwin has screen 4.5.1-1 installed. And the most recent release is 4.5.2-1. In any case, I didn't recall the updates for screen hitting my Inbox. Looking at the mailing list, it appears to me

Missing announcements for screen?

2017-05-02 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, So I noticed my recent fresh install of Cygwin has screen 4.5.1-1 installed. And the most recent release is 4.5.2-1. I've been afflicted by a screen bug that popped up some releases ago say about 1.5 year ago. Basically, after detach, the restored screen buffer is mildly corrupted. An

Re: Query about "libGL error: Screen is not Windows-DRI capable"

2017-02-20 Thread Jon Turney
On 18/02/2017 21:59, Eliot Moss wrote: Dear friends -- I get the message above when I start cygwin emacs-X11 32-bit while running Cygwin-X. First of all, should I care? And if No. This message should probably be downgraded from an error. I should, what can I do about it? Does this have to

Query about "libGL error: Screen is not Windows-DRI capable"

2017-02-18 Thread Eliot Moss
Dear friends -- I get the message above when I start cygwin emacs-X11 32-bit while running Cygwin-X. First of all, should I care? And if I should, what can I do about it? Does this have to do with the command line parameters when starting the X server, for example? Regards - Eliot Moss -- Pro

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [SECURITY] don't use screen 4.5.0-1

2017-01-25 Thread Andrew Schulman
I recently updated the screen package in Cygwin to version 4.5.0-1. This version turns out to have at least one security problem [1], and maybe other serious bugs too. So I've asked for it to be removed from the Cygwin archives. If you've installed screen 4.5.0-1, you should downgr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] screen 4.5.0-1

2017-01-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
screen 4.5.0-1 is now available in Cygwin. This is a new upstream release, with bug fixes and one minor new feature. See https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8780 for the list of changes. screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-08-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
t; > 2.6.0-0.5 test release I just announced. > > > [...] > > > I've done some interactive testing with this using > > > the interpreter for a Lisp dialect. I would evaluate > > > this expression to generate a 5 second delay and then > > > a clear screen

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-08-02 Thread Kaz Kylheku
h this using the interpreter for a Lisp dialect. I would evaluate this expression to generate a 5 second delay and then a clear screen VT100 sequence: (progn (usleep 500) (put-string "\e[2J")) during this time, I would scroll the buffer somewhere. I also tested with a cursor positi

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-08-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
interpreter for a Lisp dialect. I would evaluate > this expression to generate a 5 second delay and then > a clear screen VT100 sequence: > > (progn (usleep 500) (put-string "\e[2J")) > > during this time, I would scroll the buffer somewhere. > > I also t

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-07-29 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On 29.07.2016 03:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 28 21:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: However, the former cursor position in the buffer is still known at clear screen time. It's stored in dev_console::dwEnd. So what I was thinking about is to check the above situation and then, rather th

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-07-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 28 21:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > However, the former cursor position in the buffer is still known > at clear screen time. It's stored in dev_console::dwEnd. So what > I was thinking about is to check the above situation and then, rather > then to just keep it as is,

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-07-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
[] cursor >| blank >| blank window >| blank ---+ >| blank | >| blank | >| blank ---+ >| blank >+--- > > Performing the clear screen in this situation, the cursor will be > repositioned to the first line in the cu

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-07-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
7;t grow. It's a fixed size and the scroll bar reflects this buffer size right from the start. So the user can scroll the console windows down into the not yet used buffer area, i.e.: Before: buffer +--- | nonblank | nonblank | blank | blank | > [] cursor | blank

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-07-28 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On 28.07.2016 00:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Thanks for testing. I'll check in the patch as is for now, but I'd still be interested to fix the aforementioned empty lines problem, even if just for completeness. If you have an idea, feel free to propose. Hi Corinna, The blank lines above the c

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-07-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I can do that, too. Just say the > > word. > > The patch looks good and in many cases avoids padding the history with > blank lines, compared to the naive newline emission approach. > > Usually, the clear screen operation is preceded by a homing of the cursor. > I.e., in

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-07-27 Thread Kaz Kylheku
nd in many cases avoids padding the history with blank lines, compared to the naive newline emission approach. Usually, the clear screen operation is preceded by a homing of the cursor. I.e., in VT100 language: ESC [ H, ESC [ 2 J. In this case, your approach seems to nicely trim the console da

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
: > > From: Kaz Kylheku > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 07:49:54 -0700 > Subject: Replace bogus resize-window-to-clear-screen logic. > > This removes (ab)uses of SetConsoleScreenBufferSize > which sometimes cause cmd.exe to badly misbehave. > It probably doesn't like the clo

Re: [PATCH] Strange behavior of cmd.exe when hammered with clear screen operations from Cygwin program.

2016-07-27 Thread Kaz Kylheku
clear-screen logic. This removes (ab)uses of SetConsoleScreenBufferSize which sometimes cause cmd.exe to badly misbehave. It probably doesn't like the closely spaced timing of shrinking the window down to one line followed by a restore of the size. Instead we just output newlines to clear

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