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Re: Resize a Cygwin64 xterm on Windows 7 64-bit jumps in increments of two or three columns
- From: C Linus Hicks <linush at verizon dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:33:58 -0400
- Subject: Re: Resize a Cygwin64 xterm on Windows 7 64-bit jumps in increments of two or three columns
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On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 12:45 +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 30/07/2014 19:04, C Linus Hicks wrote:
> > I have run Cygwin on multiple versions of Windows including recently on
> > Windows XP and don't think I ever had this problem. Resizing or
> > specifying a geometry always resulted in the exact number of columns
> > requested, with increments of 1 column being available when dragging the
> > borders of a window to resize.
> >
> > Now, after upgrading to Windows 7 64-bit, I cannot get the window to
> > have 80 columns on resize. It jumps in increments of two or three,
> > depending on the number of columns prior to resizing. For example:
>
> Thanks for reporting this problem.
>
> I think this may be resolved by a fix "Correctly interpret WM_HINTS,
> WM_NORMAL_HINTS properties on x86_64" I made in 1.15.1-3 [1]. Can you
> please test with the latest version?
>
> > Should I be able to resize by increments of one column?
>
> Yes
Yes, I will try that within the next day or so. Thanks.
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