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Re: starting up in rxvt ?




fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:

Do not start with a bash process. If you try starting things with

Start -> Run -> c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/bash

that will start a rxvt terminal which reads ~/.bashrc. If you try

Start -> Run -> c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i

that will start a rxvt terminal which reads /etc/profile then
~/.bash_profile.

After "rxvt" but before "-e" insert switches for rxvt if you want them,
like -bg blue -fg yellow and that sort of thing.

All this assumes you are not running XWin. If you have previously set
DISPLAY and have started XWin using start XWin -multiwindow, then you can
start a rxvt session as above prefixed with the command "run ".

Fergus


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Hello,


I read the FAQ on "is there an alternative to standard console window?", and pulled the |/usr/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-<ver>.README|. before I emailed.

I did not realise I could call rxvt from windows I thought it had to be called & executed from bash.

Thank you for putting me right. I have tried it ....

Start -> Run -> c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i

does just what I want

Cheers
Dave

:-)


PS have another problem, will post seperate query !





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