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RE: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ??
- To: 'cygwin' <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ??
- From: John Wiersba <John dot Wiersba at medstat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 19:16:40 -0400
How is it suggested that I proceed to find the cause of this? I've tried
fiddling all the variables I can think of and I don't seem to be able to
shake it. It's not always noticable, because the flashing isn't continuous
or else the painting is cached by Windows...
-- John Wiersba
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 8:49 PM
> To: 'cygwin'
> Subject: Re: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ??
>
> To answer your question: I can't duplicate this. I only tried W2K and
> Windows 98. I don't know precisely what you mean by "taskar flashes",
> however. Do you mean the whole taskbar? Do you mean only
> the part that
> relates to the command shell window? You also mention a "cygwin
> terminal window". What is that? rxvt? The result of clicking on a
> cygwin icon?
>
> >I have checked the FAQ, the Users Guide, google, the
> archives -- but I can't
> >find a reference to this.
> >
> >In the simplest case I have found, /bin/ls -lF / causes my
> taskbar to flash.
> >My root dir contains a number of symlinks of the form: d ->
> /=/d where /= is
> >my cygdrive prefix.
> >
> >Can anyone explain this or duplicate it? Other
> more-complicated cases cause
> >even worse flashing. I just reloaded cygwin from scratch
> yesterday -- I
> >didn't have this problem with my prior version (circa 12/13/00).
>
> cgf
>
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