IDLE under Cygwin doesn't show toolbar menu
Duane Kaufman
duanek at chorus.net
Thu Aug 19 07:43:34 EDT 2004
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.
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