Resize a Cygwin64 xterm on Windows 7 64-bit jumps in increments of two or three columns

[C Linus Hicks]

On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 10:33 -0400, C Linus Hicks wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 12:45 +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> > On 30/07/2014 19:04, C Linus Hicks wrote:
> > > I have run Cygwin on multiple versions of Windows including recently on
> > > Windows XP and don't think I ever had this problem. Resizing or
> > > specifying a geometry always resulted in the exact number of columns
> > > requested, with increments of 1 column being available when dragging the
> > > borders of a window to resize.
> > >
> > > Now, after upgrading to Windows 7 64-bit, I cannot get the window to
> > > have 80 columns on resize. It jumps in increments of two or three,
> > > depending on the number of columns prior to resizing. For example:
> > 
> > Thanks for reporting this problem.
> > 
> > I think this may be resolved by a fix "Correctly interpret WM_HINTS, 
> > WM_NORMAL_HINTS properties on x86_64" I made in 1.15.1-3 [1].  Can you 
> > please test with the latest version?
> > 
> > > Should I be able to resize by increments of one column?
> > 
> > Yes
> 
> Yes, I will try that within the next day or so. Thanks.

Updated to latest as of 30 minutes ago and it allows me to resize at any
column width. Thanks for your help.



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