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RE: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ??
- To: "John Wiersba" <John dot Wiersba at medstat dot com>,"cygwin" <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ??
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:16:22 +1000
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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