IDLE under Cygwin doesn't show toolbar menu

AdSR artur_spruce at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 19 08:23:59 EDT 2004


porky_pig_jr at my-deja.com (Porky Pig Jr) wrote in message news:<56cfb0e3.0408181608.794fed82 at posting.google.com>...
> Just downloaded and installed the latest Cygwin distribution which
> includes python 2.3.4. IDLE runs fine but for some reason the toolbar
> menu doesn't show up.
> Like, by default, it starts shell window, but no toolbar. If I type
> 
> idle foobar.py
> 
> it brings both shell and editor windows, but once again, no toolbar on
> either window -- which renders the edtior quite disfunctional.
> 
> Just want to check if anyone else ever ran into this problem and what
> was the workaround -- before I contact Cygwin folks.
> 
> TIA.

I've seen this too.

I believe this is a long-known problem with no solution so far. You
could check that in the Python project bug list at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/python - I think I saw it there.

AdSR



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