Desktop partially inert with mintty running

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 15.02.2024 um 09:23 schrieb Bruce Jerrick via Cygwin:
> Has anyone had this happen:
>
> Sometimes when I have a mintty running, the upper-left quandrant of the
> desktop
> becomes inert to the mouse -- icons do not respond to hovers or clicks,
> and the
> desktop background does not respond to a right-click.
> The remainder of the desktop behaves normally.
>
> Everything becomes responsive again when the mintty is closed, but it takes
> several seconds.
>
> This happens under Windoze 10 and 11, and it has happened with cygwin 3.4.9,
> 3.5.0, and various 3.6.0 (test).  It also happened with previous versions of
> mintty (and current version 3.7.0-1).
>
> This is *very* intermittent; I can't reproduce it at will.
>
There is this report: https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/1243
but I wasn't able to reproduce it.