Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: Cannot get ^Z to suspend a program Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:46:28 -0500 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <015c01c2d16d$a9516740$1403a8c0@sc.tlinx.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <015c01c2d16d$a9516740$1403a8c0@sc.tlinx.org> linda w (cyg) wrote: > Perhaps silly question, but, why not? > > >>Cygwin cannot control how windows programs handle CTRL+Z. > > > I have programs that seem to intercept keyboard keys for use as "hotkeys". > Couldn't cygwin do something similar? > > curious... > -linda Sure, but those programs hook the key(s) in a global fashion, not just from individual programs. So, Cygwin could hook the Ctrl+Z key, but what would it do then, how would it know which process to suspend? I'm not sure that cygwin could 'suspend' a non-cygwin process even if it wanted to. -- 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/