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Re: rxvt popping up and disappearing again ?
- To: arlindo at niteroi dot gsfc dot nasa dot gov (Arlindo da Silva)
- Subject: Re: rxvt popping up and disappearing again ?
- From: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 13:01:21 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: skynet dot be at cygnus dot com, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
Arlindo da Silva wrote:
>
> Yep, set CYGWIN_TTY=1
>
> Geoffrey: why can't this be the default?
The reason is that taking over the console in this way prevents the
use of regular console apps like vim. Starting vim with CYGWIN_TTY
set results in a failure dialog of some sort. Until this is figured
out, CYGWIN_TTY will default to off.
This will be documented in b19 docs.
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Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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