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Re: Anyone using cygwin=title ?
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Anyone using cygwin=title ?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:32:06 -0500
- References: <F8268126BF427A409936A83B6B86338703F0ED2F@red-msg-01.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <18047030826.20011031100919@logos-m.ru> <20011031111436.B6446@redhat.com> <573962782.20011101143135@logos-m.ru>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:31:35PM +0300, egor duda wrote:
>Answering to Stephan, i think that kludge in CYGWIN variable is useful
>only when applications themselves cannot set title (and most
>applications are supposed to use terminfo for that). Having this
>functionality in "kernel" is unique cygwin feature, i guess. i've
>heard of no other unix that doing anything similar.
Except for Windows 9x, if you want to call that a "kernel".
I've always been annoyed by the flashing of the console window as programs
are started and stopped. Red Hat people have actually asked me how to
turn off this cygwin "feature".
>changing title is a job for application, not kernel.
Thank you. That's my point, exactly.
cgf
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