IDLE under Cygwin doesn't show toolbar menu

[Duane Kaufman]

Hi,

I reported this behavior too quite a while back, but no 'easy' fix was
available, though there is a 'work-around', of sorts.

If you start idle without the server (-n option, I _think_) things
work as expected.

Duane

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.