RE: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ??

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

What happens when you run vi ? Does the same part of your screen change,
but only once? If so, then it's a feature, not a bug :}

Rob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wiersba [mailto:John.Wiersba@medstat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:17 AM
> To: 'cygwin'
> Subject: RE: Symlinks+cygdrive causes flashing taskbar ??
> 
> 
> 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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