Dragging from explorer to cygwin terminal is not putting the path into the terminal

Academy OfFetishes academyoffetishes@gmail.com
Fri Jun 7 04:04:00 GMT 2019


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On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 8:37 PM Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca>
wrote:

>
> On 2019-06-06 16:22, Academy OfFetishes wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 2:59 PM Brian Inglis wrote:
> >>     On 2019-06-06 12:00, Academy OfFetishes wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 10:51 AM Brian Inglis wrote:
> >>>> On 2019-06-05 22:26, Academy OfFetishes wrote:
> >> Then attach your ~/.minttyrc as text to your post: sometimes you make a
> >> tweak and forget, then much later, remember you messed yourself up. ;^>
> >> It looks like this:
> >> BoldAsFont=no
> >> FontHeight=20
> >> RightClickAction=paste
> >> Font=Courier New
> > Only issue I see is that this font should have 7mm high lines, so either
> you
> > have a huge screen with smallish windows in them, or you could be running
> > with some accessibility or scaling software that could interfere. What is
> > your screen setup like and are you using any such settings or software?
> > Yeah I have a huge high resolution screen and bad eyes.  It looks like
> this:
> > https://imgur.com/ppTljLs
> > I made it that tall by changing the properties of the terminal and I did
> that by
> > changing these settings: https://imgur.com/3zhCMEX
> > One thing I did change is this setting on windows (I forgot until you
> asked):
> > https://imgur.com/a/M0ckjZs
>
> I noticed you have no explicit selections for mintty locale or charset.
>
> Could you please run the following command and post the output, in case
> there is
> anything unusual with those settings that could cause problems for
> Drag'n'Drop:
>
> $ for o in -s -u -f -n -i; do locale $o; done
>
It output this:

$ for o in -s -u -f -n -i; do locale $o; done
en_US
en_US
en_US
en_US
en_US


>
> Also what do you see if you open a cmd window and Drag'n'Drop an Explorer
> file
> into that - you should see the Windows path dropped.
>
Yep, that works correctly.

>
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