Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: yes Path: not-for-mail From: Andrew DeFaria Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: rxvt cursor corruption under WinXP/ClearType Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 15:30:06 -0800 Organization: Salira Optical Networks Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3C800EFE.6070802@DeFaria.com> References: <20020301230148 DOT A3664 AT LOKI> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.204.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1015025700 13816 206.184.204.2 (1 Mar 2002 23:35:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT quimby2 DOT netfonds DOT no NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Mar 2002 23:35:00 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us Rui Carmo wrote: > Hello there, > > I've been searching the mailing-list archives for posts concerning the vertical cursor "trails" bug that rxvt exhibits under Windows XP with ClearType, but have found nothing. > > Steps to reproduce the bug: > - Under Windows XP, activate ClearType (Display Properties|Appearance|Effects|Use the following method... ClearType) > - Start rxvt with the following command line: > rxvt.exe -tn xterm -sr -fn "Lucida Console-14" -sl 30000 -e bash --login -i > - Type some chars and notice the vertical bars the cursor leaves (erase or redraw are off by one pixel) > > This only happens with monospaced fonts other than Courier New or System (Lucida Console, Andale Mono, and practically all other monospaced fonts I tried). > > I am willing to help debug/test this, and have spent a couple of hours trying to recompile rxvt on my box (setting up CVS, etc., and following the steps detailed on /usr/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-2.7.2.README), but would like to get in touch with other folk that have been working on rxvt to swap tips. > > Since I am not subscribed to the list, please e-mail me directy. Ah! So that's what it is! I've been having this problem at home on my XP box for a while now but didn't see the problem on my work XP box. Don't know the solution but at least I now know what to turn off. Thanks. -- 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/