mintty window border?
Thomas Wolff
towo@towo.net
Sun Apr 25 23:07:10 GMT 2021
Am 25.04.2021 um 23:49 schrieb Jim Garrison via Cygwin:
> Mintty's window does not seem to have any border at the left and bottom.
> The top of the window has the title menu bar and the right side is the
> scroll bar. When I have multiple mintty windows open, and they overlap,
> since there is no border, one window blends into another.
>
> I searched mintty's options and there doesn't seem to be a way to
> specify a border. If the window background is a light color, there's
> a subtle drop shadow that helps a bit, but with a dark style it's
> impossible to distinguish the windows.
Borders are drawn by Windows, according to Windows style settings. This
is not specific to mintty, you'll see the same effect with other
applications.
>
> Here's a sample:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/10zKWdie_nA-_hzsN8i_GeCw7VadJBmol/view?usp=sharing
>
>
> Is there a way to make it draw a border?
Applications can draw their own decorations, at considerable
implementation effort.
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