X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SARE_MSGID_LONG45,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20100416152200.GV8556@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:15:00 +0100 Received: by 10.239.147.11 with SMTP id y11mr148606hba.78.1271441700866; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:15:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: mintty: Doesn't know about CTRL key From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com > Corinna Vinschen: >> I'm more and more using mintty for everything (shell, admin shell, >> heating my food, you name it). > > Food as well? It was only meant to make mint tea. Thanks for the endorsem= ent. :) > > >> Consider you have more than one mintty window open. =C2=A0A typical use = case >> for me is to have one shell open under UAC and the other one with admin >> rights to test to test something. =C2=A0Then I want to close both ttys a= nd >> test again with another Cygwin DLL. >> >> So I press Ctrl-D twice, without lifting my thumb from the Ctrl key. >> >> The first mintty window closes just fine. =C2=A0The second mintty window= does >> not close. =C2=A0Instead, it behaves as if I had pressed the 'd' key alo= ne. >> So I have to BS and then press Ctrl-D again to exit the second shell. >> >> Apparently the second mintty window doesn't recognize the fact that the >> Ctrl key is still pressed. =C2=A0This does not happen with two console >> windows, neither in tty, nor in notty mode. > > Phew, not quite as bad as the title suggested. > > This will be due to the hack for telling AltGrrrr from Ctrl+AltGr > (which is needed because Windows sends AltGr keypresses as > simultaneous Ctrl and Alt key events). Hopefully I'll find a way to > fix this without breaking something else again. ps: One workaround is to use Alt-F4 instead of Ctrl-D. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple