Cygwin X server accepts xfixes version 5.0 but doesn't handle xcb_xfixes_hide_cursor

2020-10-15 Thread Frank Eske via Cygwin
I'm building an XCB-based application that uses xcb_xfixes_hide_cursor. The X server reports back version 5.0 in xcb_fixes_query_version_reply and accepts xcb_xfixes_hide_cursor requests, but does not hide the cursor. When omitting the xcb_fixes_query_version operation, the xcb_xfixes_hide_cursor i

xterm tab key (temporarily) locks keyboard

2020-10-18 Thread Frank Eske via Cygwin
If the tab key is entered as the first character running the bash shell on an xterm terminal, the keyboard temporarily locks. Control-C writes ^C but doesn't unlock it. This doesn't happen on Fedora. It also doesn't lock if a space is typed first. This occurs whether or not the xterm console is in

Re: xterm tab key (temporarily) locks keyboard

2020-10-21 Thread Frank Eske via Cygwin
There may be some other key or key combination on the left side of the keyboard that's doing this also. While the tab key can reproducibly cause it, some other key combination might also. Since my bash version is Jan 27, 2017 and none of my .bash scripts have changed recently, xterm (Sep 20, 2020)

Link/$PATH interaction problem

2021-01-23 Thread Frank Eske via Cygwin
Similar to December's "cygwin1.dll > 3.1.4 Program execution fails if (WSL-)symlink exists and is present in PATH", but it's still present in 3.1.6 and 3.1.7. While I can revert back to 3.1.4 (and 3.1.2,) links I have created since then do not show up as links and are listed as owned by UnknownUser