[cygwin] Re: Weird mintty behavior - windows 10

Jason Pyeron jpyeron@pdinc.us
Wed Jul 12 02:30:00 GMT 2017


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Wolff
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 1:03 AM
> 
> Am 11.07.2017 um 06:43 schrieb Jason Pyeron:
> > When launching C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - 
> > (from the start menu)
> >
> > And while in the terminal I hit Ctrl-Tab, the window becomes dialog
modal.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to prevent this behavior?
> >
> > $ mintty.exe -V
> > mintty 2.7.7 (x86_64-pc-cygwin)
> There was a related fix but in 2.7.7:
>    * Avoid being pushed behind other windows on Ctrl+TAB (#652).
> Please describe the issue more precisely.

Maybe a video will help:
http://client.pdinc.us/cygwin-mintty-modal-issue.swf

Updating to 2.7.8 seems to mitigate it
(https://github.com/mintty/wsltty/issues/47).

$ mintty -V
mintty 2.7.8 (x86_64-pc-cygwin)
C 2013/2017 Andy Koppe / Thomas Wolff
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
There is no warranty, to the extent permitted by law.

Thanks.


-Jason


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