Re: [Mingw-users] Mouse cursor in full-screen mode when running make under cmd.exe

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Eli Zaretskii <el...@gn...> wrote:
>> From: Kevin Scott <ks...@ez...>
>> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 21:17:13 -0400
>>
>> On 19-Sep-2013, at 10:13:47 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <el...@gn...> wrote:
>>
>> > What does "make --version" (or maybe it's "mingw32-make --version"
>> > in your case) say, and where did you get the binary?
>>
>> I've actually installed MinGW twice, and have had the same
>> behavior from both of them.  Both times, I got the download
>> (at least the initial mingw-get portion) from
>>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/
>>
>> Since my previous posting, I noticed that the mouse cursor
>> on the full-screen text display also occurs while "less"
>> is running.  In both make and less, you can move the cursor
>> around with the mouse, but clicking it doesn't do anything.
>
> I'm guessing that in full-screen mode of the Command Prompt window,
> Windows turns on the text-mode mouse cursor for any program that uses
> the Windows console APIs, directly or indirectly.  E.g., Less uses
> those APIs to clear the console window and display colorized text.
>
> I never use the full-screen mode of the command prompt, and I don't
> know how to turn off the text-mode mouse, if at all possible.  Perhaps
> try playing with the Properties of the command prompt window, like
> change the font or enable/disable the Quick Edit mode.
>

I don't know anyone else using full-screen mode of the command window
either; nor do I know how to turn that on.

> This page:
>
>   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/96706
>
> seems to indicate that you can disable the mouse on MS-DOS by editing
> a dosshell.ini file; perhaps the same will work on Windows 98.
>
> Sorry, I don't know much more about this.

Nor do I.

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