BUG: Log on Scheduled Task invisible/empty window blocks input

2023-11-25 Thread Jason Kim via Cygwin
Hi, This particular issue with the invisible windows that pop up seems to be a relatively a new issue with cygwin with recent win11. With a slightly older windows 10, these conhost tasks with their invisible windows do not pop up at all (that I've noticed). And no amount of using "run.exe"

Re: BUG: Log on Scheduled Task invisible/empty window blocks input

2023-01-30 Thread Ross Patterson via Cygwin
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 3:48 PM Brian Inglis wrote: > > Best to hide that inside a script, rather than deal with mixing Windows and > shell quoting rules! Tested and confirmed to be working with other scheduled tasks that exit. > Services drop privileges to $USER privileges unelevated. What I'm

Re: BUG: Log on Scheduled Task invisible/empty window blocks input

2023-01-29 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
On 2023-01-29 15:55, Ross Patterson wrote: dash (or bash if required) native path with WD /var/log/ native path e.g. %CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\dash /usr/local/bin/sh WD %CYGWIN_ROOT%\var\log I'm not understanding the use of `WD` here, can you clarify/elaborate? Working Directory entry At any r

Re: BUG: Log on Scheduled Task invisible/empty window blocks input

2023-01-29 Thread Ross Patterson via Cygwin
> dash (or bash if required) native path with WD /var/log/ native path e.g. > > %CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\dash /usr/local/bin/sh WD %CYGWIN_ROOT%\var\log I'm not understanding the use of `WD` here, can you clarify/elaborate? At any rate, I forgot to mention that I also tried adding output redirection

Re: BUG: Log on Scheduled Task invisible/empty window blocks input

2023-01-27 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
On 2023-01-26 19:43, Ross Patterson via Cygwin wrote: TL;DR: I needed to run a Cygwin process at user log on with highest privileges to perform some operations that are not allowed any other way without requiring a UAC prompt. This results in a window without any border, close button or any othe

BUG: Log on Scheduled Task invisible/empty window blocks input

2023-01-26 Thread Ross Patterson via Cygwin
TL;DR: I needed to run a Cygwin process at user log on with highest privileges to perform some operations that are not allowed any other way without requiring a UAC prompt. This results in a window without any border, close button or any other decoration that is most often invisible/transparent, s