X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:09:59 -0800 From: rhubbell To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Tried mintty but it locks-up on enabling "Copy on select" Message-Id: <20090212090959.f979cc52.Rhubbell@iHubbell.com> In-Reply-To: <416096c60902112333v1e9bc315pa36962835d3bacbd@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090209091728.7b0a18a1.Rhubbell@iHubbell.com> <416096c60902091054l5664812bi8af7002f39648ec8@mail.gmail.com> <20090209112036.bd57b89b.Rhubbell@iHubbell.com> <416096c60902092329q352e8e6agba34d7407c40e745@mail.gmail.com> <20090210084223.dca9d7bb.Rhubbell@iHubbell.com> <416096c60902112333v1e9bc315pa36962835d3bacbd@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Turns out I tried again to see if some particular app was part of the problem. Tried YIM, Word, etc. But couldn't pinpoint. But I did see the problem again. Still occurred while in the Options menu but was not in the copy-on- select menu. Just switching between sub-menus. Maybe I'll try again some time and use ollydbg. On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:33:51 +0000 Andy Koppe wrote: > > 1) run setup.exe > > 2) download -- but don't install > > 3) run setup.exe -- install from local dir > > 4) in filemanager dbl-click mintty.exe > > 5) in the term rt-click->Options->mouse->enable copy-on-select > > 6) mintty becomes unresponsive > > 7) kill mintty.exe and the associated bash.exe > > > > I tried these steps today and was unable to reproduce. > > Thanks for trying anyway! > > > Q2) Have you got any clipboard utilities running? > > A2) Every application has access to the clipboard, right? So yes. > > You can get various 3rd party utilities for adding stuff like a > clipboard history or Windows-wide copy-on-select. > > > Q3) Does it work if you delete or rename ~/.minttyrc to go back to the default settings and copy something through the context menu? > > A3) Didn't find a .minttyrc, does mintty create one when it starts? > > No, it only creates one when you press OK in the options dialog, but > of course you didn't get to that. > > > What does mintty put in there if it creates one? > > Its settings, in the form of key-value pairs like 'CopyOnSelect=1'. > (I'd asked in case it was a particular combination of options that > triggered the crash.) > > Andy > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/