Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: RE: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ?? Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:16:22 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-ID: content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ?? Thread-Index: AcD+oTu+/+WutVNXRO6JyNkH1IAOkwABXlvg From: "Robert Collins" To: "John Wiersba" , "cygwin" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id AAA27722 What happens when you run vi ? Does the same part of your screen change, but only once? If so, then it's a feature, not a bug :} Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: John Wiersba [mailto:John.Wiersba@medstat.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:17 AM > To: 'cygwin' > Subject: RE: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ?? > > > How is it suggested that I proceed to find the cause of this? > I've tried > fiddling all the variables I can think of and I don't seem to > be able to > shake it. It's not always noticable, because the flashing > isn't continuous > or else the painting is cached by Windows... > > -- John Wiersba > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com] > > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 8:49 PM > > To: 'cygwin' > > Subject: Re: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ?? > > > > To answer your question: I can't duplicate this. I only > tried W2K and > > Windows 98. I don't know precisely what you mean by > "taskar flashes", > > however. Do you mean the whole taskbar? Do you mean only > > the part that > > relates to the command shell window? You also mention a "cygwin > > terminal window". What is that? rxvt? The result of clicking on a > > cygwin icon? > > > > >I have checked the FAQ, the Users Guide, google, the > > archives -- but I can't > > >find a reference to this. > > > > > >In the simplest case I have found, /bin/ls -lF / causes my > > taskbar to flash. > > >My root dir contains a number of symlinks of the form: d -> > > /=/d where /= is > > >my cygdrive prefix. > > > > > >Can anyone explain this or duplicate it? Other > > more-complicated cases cause > > >even worse flashing. I just reloaded cygwin from scratch > > yesterday -- I > > >didn't have this problem with my prior version (circa 12/13/00). > > > > cgf > > > > -- > > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/