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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.1.11-1
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 05:29:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>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.
I know I should be downloading sources and inspecting things rather than
making obvious suggestions but I don't suppose that urxvt calls
FreeConsole?
cgf
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