RE: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ??

[John Wiersba <John dot Wiersba at medstat dot com>]

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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