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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:38:24 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: Re: Regarding the new rxvt builds (rxvt-20050409-6 and -7)
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Davide Dente wrote:
> Hello, long term user of Cygwin and lurker here.
> 
> I have a small problem with the new builds of rxvt that I think nobody
> else has already reported (after a check of the cygwin and cygwin-apps
> archives).
> 
> 
> I am not able anymore to get to the system menu using the "Alt-Spacebar"
> keybord combination. As i like to work with maximized windows, I was
> used to press "Alt-Spacebar" and then "n" as the first thing after
> bringing up a new terminal.
> 
> I understand that there have been some work on the handling of the "alt"
> key by Corinna Vinschen a couple of weeks ago, so I think that maybe the
> "Alt-Spacebar" was some kind of special case that has been removed from
> the code.
> 
> 
> Do you think that it should be possible to get the old behavior back ?

Should be.  I'll look into when I get a chance, but it won't be this 
week.  For now, you can reinstall the 20070409-4 version using setup.exe.

Thanks for the report.

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Chuck

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