Elliott Hughes wrote: > I too have a problem with the combination, but it's a bit more far-reaching. > I can't type anything. I know this is the sort of problem you don't like: > Cygwin bash(1) works fine, Cygwin rxvt(1) works fine (if I type on an > attached keyboard), and "cygwin.bat" running in a "cmd" window works fine > (even with keystrokes coming off the net via synergy). But I wondered if > anyone else had seen this or had any ideas?
I have no idea what 'synergy' is but it sounds like it's not a Cygwin program (i.e. it is not linked against cygwin1.dll.) If that's the case you will probably not be able to use it in a rxvt window because it will have no concept of the pty that rxvt presents. The unix pseudoterminal doesn't exist in windows, so Cygwin emulates it with a pipe. Most non-Cygwin programs don't expect to take interactive input from a pipe so they buffer the input, which makes it seem as if nothing is happening. There's not much you can do about this, other than: - run the program in a CMD window (without 'tty' in $CYGWIN) -- this uses a native windows console instead of a pty - find a Cygwin application to do the same function - recompile synergy as a Cygwin app or at least to take input unbuffered from a pipe Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
