Re: How to replace default bash window with rxvt / bash shell?

[CheapLisa <lisa at purpleblade dot net>]

thanks for the help.  It did launch bash so I am a little further along.  I
still need to get multiple tabs (integrate screen) into the command and
believe I have it after some experimentation:
  rxvt -e screen /usr/bin/bash --login -i

so rxvt executes both screen and bash but another window pops up before and
goes away.  This is a little annoying but I can live with it.


Renà Berber-2 wrote:
> 
> CheapLisa wrote:
> 
>> I want to replace the default cygwin bash window with something where I
>> can
>> have multiple tabs
>> or tab like features.  I do not know of any command line commando that
>> would
>> not want this feature
>> and hope that in the future something else would be provided by default.
>> 
>> It looks like the best combination is "rxvt" and "screen" used together.
> 
> There's other options with real tabs, Terminator is one, another was 
> discussed recently on this list.  They all have glitches, I use mrxvt 
> but that one needs Cygwin/X or similar running.
> 
>> So I was able to crate an rxvt.bat file and create a short cut to it
>> (icon
>> on desktop)
>> but when it launches it is not the bash shell nor is it a login shell.
> 
> You don't need a batch file, just create a shortcut, edit its properties 
> and put something like:
> 
> C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -sl 2048 -geometry +56+616 -e /bin/bash --login -i
> 
> in the target field.  You may also add a nice icon (for instance 
> C:\Cygwin\cygwin.ico)
> 
>> When I do $echo $SHELL, I get /bin/sh and when I type $alias, I get
>> nothing
>> so it has not sourced my environment config files.
> 
> That's controlled by the parameters you pass to bash, that's why the 
> "--login -i" is there above.
> 
> [snip]
>>  Also when running the screen command I always get some text and then
>> instructions
>>  to press the spacebar/or enter.  That is very nice but how is this
>> surpressed?
> 
> Don't use screen (not recently anyway) but isn't it there a "quiet"
> option?
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