delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: cygwin/2019/06/06/18:58:01

X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
:list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id
:date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type
:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=fzmEnRCYf9EaEUWb
aSQsYTC9X5ODxlDX5CeN02W4HdT42iFL+7WKRjZFmgfVGLwSp1m3VqOsjznth190
/sle+BHfbjjBACJBkpSq/q3Rik/rKkNvzGpj8ZSW0eSczqHOZQjFlJLwtVVa7biV
+Qu59eY4IsfmItjZs8FZhk+00mE=
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
:list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id
:date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type
:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=L7GZCR+tb3IYw2kSrWQ837
eHkDE=; b=a939hWQSE+ATQE3jA4bYwfbUrurwEA4Xjaz3kJN8PD2pupXq3YMln+
LQS1W0yDfybfR7qKplxpDHYziHG9b3Et75bSX5bm7p1AjOQ8p7I2xD+M+sg0ZJUg
Bp/M93XKykG4h8zQ/ijyCtSFwBxg46zDg4YFgc4gIFYdZ6agfTBls=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none
X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=Points, army, swiss
X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca
Reply-To: Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca
Subject: Re: Dragging from explorer to cygwin terminal is not putting the path into the terminal
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <CADvWqDWTAxpC1LeBf9we4cVyiVm57xZdL7Uu4zQvs74W7sKWoQ AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <f3fca58fb43d9d7a630a1c9dd29036e7 AT smtp-cloud7 DOT xs4all DOT net> <CADvWqDUbQ-GBLFDy-au2mPmDHsnGK_kwWBoWRdTyaezHk+i=Fw AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <48981a768f895c196f11fa4a107cfd4d AT smtp-cloud7 DOT xs4all DOT net> <CADvWqDVwW+ptwF=RPWRpEq86-CHUx-9-j-KQ-Dn2OcvShwp3vw AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <CADvWqDU4JbM5uZf2mdxecZnSOe+c08_zPAW55XwEu8=K7AAzCw AT mail DOT gmail DOT com>
From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca>
Openpgp: preference=signencrypt
Message-ID: <ce1f4bd3-d647-8ea6-4831-8dd4e9bd5269@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 16:57:05 -0600
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <CADvWqDU4JbM5uZf2mdxecZnSOe+c08_zPAW55XwEu8=K7AAzCw@mail.gmail.com>
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Note-from-DJ: This may be spam

On 2019-06-06 16:34, Academy OfFetishes wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 3:26 PM Academy OfFetishes wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 12:56 PM Houder wrote:
>>> On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 10:56:28, Academy OfFetishes wrote:
>>>> Well first of all, is this feature supposed to work by default or is it
>>>> something you turn on?
>>> Yes.
>> Yes to which?  Yes to both?  If it's something you turn on, where is that
>> setting?
>>>>> What did you try? Something that can give us (and you) a clue ...
>>>> I tried dragging a file to the terminal.
>>> That is not not what I meant ... You could have told us whether or not the
>>> problem is also present if you install the previous version of MinTTY ...
>>> When I wrote, you are sitting behind your computer, I was not trying to be
>>> nasty ... I meant, you are the _only_ one who can provide us clues,
>>> because right now we have not enough info to help you.
>> When I install a previous version it doesn't make a difference.  I've
>> installed 2.9.9
>> I'd like to help more than this, but I don't know what other information I
>> can provide that would be helpful.

> There are two things that I suspect could be the culprit.  I ran these two
> scripts after installing windows:
> https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater
> https://github.com/alirobe/Reclaim-Windows10
> After that, I created a new user I login as and installed cygwin from the
> new user.

Oops! These scripts tend to be the proverbial swiss army chainsaw that blows
away anything the writer dislikes about Windows.
I very carefully review and comment out anything that might affect core function
or be difficult to reverse in these scripts, and create System Restore Points.
Did you create a System Restore Point before and after running each of these
scripts?
If so, perhaps you could restore your system?

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains
too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019