Re: screen and popup console on Windows 7

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 06:15:51PM +0200, Sylvain Pasche wrote:
>I saw the recent thread about the unwanted console windows appearing
>with MinTTY on Win7.
>
>I just wanted to mention that I see a similar issue with screen in the
>same environment (Win7 RC 64-bit, Cygwin 1.7, screen 4.0.3-1): Each new
>screen window that is opened creates a persistent console window that
>shows in the taskbar (closing the console windows closes the matching
>screen window).  If you're not familiar with screen, new windows can be
>created with the "Ctrl-a c" shortcut.
>
>If a workaround is implemented for this, it could be useful to check if
>it solves the issue in screen too.

I'd appreciate it if you would test this and let everyone know.  You
have the power:

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

cgf

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