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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.1.11-1


On Aug 14 11:19, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 04:44:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Aug 14 10:15, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >> Later, when W7 in is more widespread use (e.g. when I have personal
> >> access to it), I'll see if I can improve the situation a bit. Maybe I'll
> >> add a switch "-f/--flicker-ok" to enable use of a mechanism similar to
> >> urxvt[d]-X's hide_console() [only, without the 'check to see if this
> >> console already existed before I was launched' intelligence] rather than
> >> cygwin's CREATE_NO_WINDOW, just for situations like urxvt[d]-X and Ken's
> >> emacs example.
> >
> >I just tested this further.  If you omit the CREATE_NO_WINDOW flag
> >to CreateProcess, the console window still flickers when starting
> >urxvt, but the CPU usage does not stick to 100%.  Since XWin and
> >xterm are apparently unaffected by this (no flickering cmd window)
> >it looks like that's the better interim solution.
> 
> Isn't just creating the process with SW_HIDE good enough?

run uses the SW_HIDE flag in CreateProcess, but for some reason
it doesn't help for urxvt.


Corinna

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