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1.7.5 cannot bg mintty


I sometimes forget to append a & when opening a new mintty from an existing mintty. With rxvt this was never a problem, just ^Z and bg in the parent terminal (my shell is bash 3.2.49-23). This doesn't seem to work for mintty (0.6.2-1) though - although it seems that the job has has been put into the background it never becomes possible to type anything into the newly spawned terminal window after ^Z has been used.

If I spawn an rxvt from a mintty (or indeed an rxvt from an rxvt) using ^Z and bg works without any problems. I can't see anything obviously different in the output of stty -a between my rxvt and mintty.

If I start a mintty with a &, fg it and then bg it again, the same effect occurs - it becomes impossible to type anything into the child mintty.

I can an alias to avoid tripping myself up on this all the time, but it seemed worth querying. Is there something I'm missing or a setting needed somewhere to make mintty background-able (or indeed does anyone else experience this behaviour?)

Thanks,

Paul




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