That seems to cure the problem. Is there any documentation that should
have clued me in to this trick?
Andy Piper wrote:
What happens if you add "tty" to your CYGWIN env setting?
andy
>-----Original Message-----
>From: xemacs-beta-admin(a)xemacs.org
>[mailto:xemacs-beta-adminï¼ xemacs.org]On Behalf Of Ed Windes
>Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 7:59 PM
>To: XEmacs Beta
>Subject: [Bug: 21.4.13] XEmacs display wrecked after starting subprocess
>
>
>================================================================
>Dear Bug Team!
>
>I'm using XEmacs, Cygwin (not native), on Windows XP, and seeing a
>weird interaction between how XEmacs is started, running subprocesses,
>and display painting.
>
>If I start XEmacs from a shortcut or from an XEmacs bash window, and
>then either run a bash sub-shell (M-X shell) or start some other
>subprocess (M-Xgnuserver-start), XEmacs stops displaying its windows
>correctly.
>
>If, on the other hand, I start XEmacs from a Cygwin xterm, or from
>rxvt.exe, I can do the same things without messing up XEmacs.
>
>I've reproduced the same behavior on two XP machines with fresh
>installs of both Cygwin and XEmacs.
>
>================================================================
>
>System Info to help track down your bug:
>---------------------------------------
>
>uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 TSUNAMI 1.3.20(0.73/3/2) 2003-02-08 12:10 i686
>unknown unknown Cygwin
>
>./configure '--with-dragndrop' '--with-postgresql=no'
'--with-x=no'
>'--bindir=/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-cygwin' '--with-site-lisp=yes'
>'--with-ipv6-cname=no' '--with-netinstall'
>
>
>XEmacs 21.4.13 "Rational FORTRAN" configured for `i686-pc-cygwin'.
>
>
>Compilation / Installation:
> Source code location:
>/development/xemacs/xemacs-21.4-release
> Installation prefix: /usr/local
> Operating system description file: `s/cygwin32.h'
> Machine description file: `m/intel386.h'
> Compiler: gcc
>-I/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../../include/noX
>-I/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../../include/noX -g -O3
>-Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -Wshadow
>-Wpointer-arith
> Relocating allocator for buffers: no
> GNU version of malloc: yes
>
>Window System:
> Compiling in support for the Microsoft window system.
> Using MS-Windows menubars.
> Using MS-Windows scrollbars.
> Using MS-Windows dialog boxes.
> Using MS-Windows native widgets.
> Compiling in support for Drag'n'Drop (EXPERIMENTAL).
> - Drag'n'Drop prototype: msw.
>
>TTY:
> Compiling in support for ncurses.
>
>Images:
> Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin).
> Compiling in support for XPM images.
> Compiling in support for PNG images.
> Compiling in support for JPEG images.
> Compiling in support for TIFF images.
> Compiling in support for X-Face message headers.
>
>Sound:
> Compiling in support for sound (native).
>
>Databases:
> Compiling in support for GNU DBM.
>
>Internationalization:
> Compiling in support for file coding.
>
>Mail:
> Compiling in support for POP mail retrieval.
>
>Other Features:
> Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup.
> Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules.
>
>
>
>Load-Path Lisp Shadows:
>----------------------
>(/XEmacs/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/build/build-report
>/XEmacs/lib/xemacs-21.4.13/lisp/build-report)
>
>
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>-------------------------
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> (texinfo :version 1.24 :type regular)
> (supercite :version 1.19 :type regular)
> (strokes :version 1.08 :type regular)
> (speedbar :version 1.26 :type regular)
> (sounds-wav :version 1.1 :type regular)
> (sounds-au :version 1.1 :type regular)
> (sml-mode :version 0.09 :type regular)
> (slider :version 1.13 :type regular)
> (sieve :version 1.13 :type regular)
> (sh-script :version 1.17 :type regular)
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> (semantic :version 1.17 :type regular)
> (scheme :version 1.13 :type regular)
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> (ruby-modes :version 1.01 :type regular)
> (rmail :version 1.13 :type regular)
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>Features:
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>(mail-abbrevs xemacsbug shadow sendmail rfc822 view-less view apropos
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>b u g RET C-v C-v C-v C-s e m a c s C-x o ESC x r e
>p o TAB r t - TAB x e TAB RET
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