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Re: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ??


Ok, this is a feature, not a bug. cygwin is changing the title of the
console window to the active program. The taskbar shows the window title as
well, so it changes too. As for getting rid of this behaviour, I suspect
someone needs to patch cygwin1.dll. I've got no suggestion as to the best
way to control this behaviour, and to the best of my knowledge it doesn'
work on NT at all - perhaps it could be considered obsolete and removed? I
don't know.. just rambling :]

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Wiersba" <John.Wiersba@medstat.com>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 12:06 AM
Subject: RE: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ??


> When I run vi, for instance, I can (sometimes) see the taskbar flash once
as
> vi starts up in the DOS window.  Then, while vi is running, there is no
> flashing taskbar.  Again, when I exit vi, the taskbar (sometimes) flashes.
> It's hard to test this because the taskbar appears to be redrawn so fast
> that I often can't see it flash at all, even though I believe it's being
> redrawn every time.
>
> -- John
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 9:16 PM
> > To: John Wiersba; cygwin
> > Subject: RE: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ??
> >
> >
> > What happens when you run vi ? Does the same part of your
> > screen change,
> > but only once? If so, then it's a feature, not a bug :}
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Wiersba [mailto:John.Wiersba@medstat.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:17 AM
> > > To: 'cygwin'
> > > Subject: RE: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ??
> > >
> > >
> > > How is it suggested that I proceed to find the cause of this?
> > >  I've tried
> > > fiddling all the variables I can think of and I don't seem to
> > > be able to
> > > shake it.  It's not always noticable, because the flashing
> > > isn't continuous
> > > or else the painting is cached by Windows...
> > >
> > > -- John Wiersba
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> > > > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 8:49 PM
> > > > To: 'cygwin'
> > > > Subject: Re: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ??
> > > >
> > > > To answer your question: I can't duplicate this.  I only
> > > tried W2K and
> > > > Windows 98.  I don't know precisely what you mean by
> > > "taskar flashes",
> > > > however.  Do you mean the whole taskbar?  Do you mean only
> > > > the part that
> > > > relates to the command shell window?  You also mention a "cygwin
> > > > terminal window".  What is that?  rxvt?  The result of
> > clicking on a
> > > > cygwin icon?
> > > >
> > > > >I have checked the FAQ, the Users Guide, google, the
> > > > archives -- but I can't
> > > > >find a reference to this.
> > > > >
> > > > >In the simplest case I have found, /bin/ls -lF / causes my
> > > > taskbar to flash.
> > > > >My root dir contains a number of symlinks of the form: d ->
> > > > /=/d where /= is
> > > > >my cygdrive prefix.
> > > > >
> > > > >Can anyone explain this or duplicate it?  Other
> > > > more-complicated cases cause
> > > > >even worse flashing.  I just reloaded cygwin from scratch
> > > > yesterday -- I
> > > > >didn't have this problem with my prior version (circa 12/13/00).
> > > >
> > > > cgf
> > > >
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