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Re: 1.5.18: rxvt only accepts control keys from synergy


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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