Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/11/01/12:31:55
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:31:35PM +0300, egor duda wrote:
>Answering to Stephan, i think that kludge in CYGWIN variable is useful
>only when applications themselves cannot set title (and most
>applications are supposed to use terminfo for that). Having this
>functionality in "kernel" is unique cygwin feature, i guess. i've
>heard of no other unix that doing anything similar.
Except for Windows 9x, if you want to call that a "kernel".
I've always been annoyed by the flashing of the console window as programs
are started and stopped. Red Hat people have actually asked me how to
turn off this cygwin "feature".
>changing title is a job for application, not kernel.
Thank you. That's my point, exactly.
cgf
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