Task Troubleshooting Guide
Here you will find tips and suggestions for making task behave properly, and bug workarounds.
Segmentation Fault for certain commands
Upgrading task to version 1.1.0, 1.2.0 and 1.3.0 can cause segmentation faults. This is mostly occurring for Ubuntu users, although there is no reason for it to be limited to Ubuntu.
Task 1.3.1 fixes this bug, but there is a workaround for users of earlier versions. Add the following line to your ~/.taskrc file:
dateformat=m/d/Y
The "dateformat" setting is supported in task 1.1.0 and later.
How do I build task under Cygwin?
Task is built the same way everywhere. But under Cygwin, you'll need to make sure you have the following packages available first:
- gcc
- make
- libncurses-devel
- libncurses8
Do colors work under Cygwin?
They do, but only in a limited way. You can use regular foreground colors (black, red, green ...) and you can regular background colors (on_black, on_red, on_green ...), but underline and bold are not supported.
If you run the command:
Task will display all the colors it can use, and you will
see which ones you can use.
% task colors
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