Thank you. ".minttyrc" is my new friend. Thanks to all who help with cygwin.
Eric Adams. On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 12:19 PM Thomas Wolff <t...@towo.net> wrote: > > > Am 15.09.2021 um 11:59 schrieb Eric Adams via Cygwin: > > Hi, > > > > In the last few days, I have noticed a new behavior. Activating or > > deactivating a Cygwin terminal window may change the state of my > > keyboard's scroll-lock light. > Keyboard LED management is a new feature as described in the manual > page. The purpose is to keep the LEDs consistent with the state of the > terminal window. > > > Inside a terminal window, the keyboard scroll-lock key may not change the > > corresponding light. > If you assign a user-defined no-scroll or scroll-mode function to a key > (regardless of whether it's the ScrollLock or another key), the > ScrollLock will change accordingly. > > > What I have: > > my startup icon command: C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i > > /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - > > my shell: tcsh > > my prompt: '%m:%c3 \!> ' > > my OS: Windows 10 Home / 21H1 / 19043.1237 > > my keyboard: CoolerMaster Devastator II (illuminated) > > > > If I activate a terminal window, the scroll-lock light may (or may > > not) change state. If I press the scroll-lock key, the light may (or > > may not) change state. > It will be changed to the terminal state when the terminal window gets > focus and restored to the system state when the terminal loses focus, as > you noted below. > > > Holding the key down causes the light to flicker, and on releasing the key > > the final state may be either on or off. > Auto-repeat may in fact confuse the state management, to be checked for > a race condition. > > > Returning focus to a windows application seems to restore the > > "desired" scroll-lock state. > > > > My observation is based on the use of the scroll-lock light to control the > > illumination of this keyboard. > What is your use case and how do you control the LEDs? > Anyway, if you do not wish mintty to manage the ScrollLock (or any) LED, > try setting > ManageLEDs=3 or ManageLEDs=0 > > Thomas > > > Thanks for your attention, > > Eric Adams. > > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
