On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:53:49 +0000 Миронов Леонид Владимирович via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Something, probably a recent windows 10 update (currently at 10.0.17763.2300 > - way behind, but it is LTSC) broke cygwin programs using fullscreen > (ncurses?) console output e.g. less, mc, vi when run in Windows console > windows (cmd and such): they produce no output at all, just black screen with > cursor in the top-left corner, but seem to be running and processing keyboard > input as expected e.g. when q is pressed less exits and finally prints a > screenful of text it was supposed to show from the very start. No issues when > these programs run in proper cygwin terminal (mintty). I found two > workarounds, but neither one is perfect. One is to set TERM=cygwin but less > won't clear the screen on exit and home/end don't work (incidentally setting > TERM=xterm like in minnty doesn't help at all). Another workaround is to > switch windows console to legacy mode. Is there a better way to run these > programs in windows console without starting mintty? I cannot reproduce your problem. Please provide cygcheck -s -v -r result. -- Takashi Yano <takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp> -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
