1.5.18: rxvt only accepts control keys from synergy
Brian Dessent
brian@dessent.net
Wed Jan 18 04:18:00 GMT 2006
Elliott Hughes wrote:
> I too have a problem with the combination, but it's a bit more far-reaching. I can't type anything. I know this is the sort of problem you don't like: Cygwin bash(1) works fine, Cygwin rxvt(1) works fine (if I type on an attached keyboard), and "cygwin.bat" running in a "cmd" window works fine (even with keystrokes coming off the net via synergy). But I wondered if anyone else had seen this or had any ideas?
I have no idea what 'synergy' is but it sounds like it's not a Cygwin
program (i.e. it is not linked against cygwin1.dll.) If that's the case
you will probably not be able to use it in a rxvt window because it will
have no concept of the pty that rxvt presents. The unix pseudoterminal
doesn't exist in windows, so Cygwin emulates it with a pipe. Most
non-Cygwin programs don't expect to take interactive input from a pipe
so they buffer the input, which makes it seem as if nothing is
happening.
There's not much you can do about this, other than:
- run the program in a CMD window (without 'tty' in $CYGWIN) -- this
uses a native windows console instead of a pty
- find a Cygwin application to do the same function
- recompile synergy as a Cygwin app or at least to take input unbuffered
from a pipe
Brian
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