Okay, I just did an update on all my packages and specified "reinstall" for rxvt, just to be safe. The behavior no longer exists, so that's good. However, I now remember why I was using an older version of rxvt: the one that is distributed with Cygwin is the "with a console" version (note the window that briefly flashes on the screen before the actual rxvt window comes up). When Steve did his original port, he also did a "no-console" experimental build, which is nice because the flashing window isn't there, and it seems to work fine otherwise. (see http://www.io.com/~bub/rxvt.html)
I tried reverting back to this version of rxvt and everything seems great -- no flickering and no CPU-peg upon resizing. So I guess the problem was somewhere in bash(?). I may have missed this discussino, but has anyone considered using the no-console build of rxvt in the distro? scott > I have Cygwin installed on two Win98 machines -- identical installs. > I've used rxvt as my shell window since I found out about the port > (well before it was included in the distro). However, on one of my > machines, when I resize the rxvt window, bash pegs the CPU and stops > responding. > > This doesn't happen on my Win2k machine at work (same Cygwin install). > > The rxvt I have reports v2.7.2: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 gse 544 141824 Mar 20 2001 /usr/bin/rxvt > > The bash shell I have reports: > GNU bash, version 2.05.0(8)-release (i686-pc-cygwin > > I guess these are both older versions, but has anybody else seen these > problems? -- 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/
