screen and popup console on Windows 7

[Sylvain Pasche]

Hi,

I saw the recent thread about the unwanted console windows appearing
with MinTTY on Win7.

I just wanted to mention that I see a similar issue with screen in the
same environment (Win7 RC 64-bit, Cygwin 1.7, screen 4.0.3-1): Each new
screen window that is opened creates a persistent console window that
shows in the taskbar (closing the console windows closes the matching
screen window). If you're not familiar with screen, new windows can be
created with the "Ctrl-a c" shortcut.

If a workaround is implemented for this, it could be useful to check if
it solves the issue in screen too.

(by the way, I recently discovered MinTTY and I'm pretty impressed.
MinTTY + screen offers a very nice multiple-tab environment on Cygwin).


Sylvain


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[Christopher Faylor-8]

On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 06:15:51PM +0200, Sylvain Pasche wrote:

>I saw the recent thread about the unwanted console windows appearing
>with MinTTY on Win7.
>
>I just wanted to mention that I see a similar issue with screen in the
>same environment (Win7 RC 64-bit, Cygwin 1.7, screen 4.0.3-1): Each new
>screen window that is opened creates a persistent console window that
>shows in the taskbar (closing the console windows closes the matching
>screen window).  If you're not familiar with screen, new windows can be
>created with the "Ctrl-a c" shortcut.
>
>If a workaround is implemented for this, it could be useful to check if
>it solves the issue in screen too.

I'd appreciate it if you would test this and let everyone know.  You
have the power:

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

cgf

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[Sylvain Pasche]

On 7/5/2009 7:37 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I'd appreciate it if you would test this and let everyone know.  You
> have the power:
>
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Tried with the 2009-07-04 snapshot, and the issue is gone :-). No more
console windows are opened when launching screen and I didn't see any
flashing. Moreover, I didn't see any additional conhost.exe processes
created when opening screen windows.

Thanks,
Sylvain


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[Andy Koppe]

2009/7/5 Sylvain Pasche:
> (by the way, I recently discovered MinTTY and I'm pretty impressed. MinTTY +
> screen offers a very nice multiple-tab environment on Cygwin).

Thanks!

Btw, you can enable browser-style tab switching with (Shift+)Ctrl+Tab
by mapping MinTTY's keycodes for those in .screenrc:

bindkey "^[[1;5I" next
bindkey "^[[1;6I" prev

Andy

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