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Re: minimize emacs
Oops... I only tested with one window open. Apparently, so did Harold. ;-)
Igor
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jason Dufair wrote:
> Maybe it's just me, but Windows-M minimizes everything. Is this
> happening to everyone?
>
> (I am talking about Cygwin/XFree86 with -multiwindow, BTW). For Ctrl-Z
> to work, would that mean a fix for Emacs or for X?
>
> Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> writes:
>
> > Just tried the following:
> >
> > 1) Ctrl-Z: Doesn't work
> >
> > 2) Ctrl-X + Ctrl-Z: Doesn't work
> >
> > 3) Windows-M: Works
> >
> >
> > Looks like we found a winner.
> >
> > Note: This is for running emacs under Cygwin/XFree86 with the
> > -multiwindow command-line parameter. I gather that is what we are all
> > talking about here.
> >
> > Harold
> >
> > Laura McWilliams wrote:
> >
> >> how about Cntrl-Z or C-X C-Z
> >> it works in X-emacs, anyways...
> >> * ----------Laura L McWilliams ****|
> >> * AIX kernel development- BN2S ****|
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> >> "there are 10 kinds of people in the world...
> >> those who understand binary, and those who don't"
> >> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jason Dufair wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Does anyone have any suggestion on how to minimize GNU Emacs running
> >>>>under Cygwin/XFree86 with the keyboard? I don't really need Emacs'
> >>>>M-Spc command, so should I just undefine it? Will that cause the
> >>>>keystroke to be passed to Windows?
> >>>
> >>>If your machine has a Windows key, you could use Windows-M to minimize any
> >>>window (I don't know if XFree86 intercepts that keystroke). Just a
> >>>thought.
> >>> Igor
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