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

[Jon TURNEY]

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

[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-06/msg00017.html

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Jon TURNEY
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