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Re: cygwin console


On 1/8/2002 10:22 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:

> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> 
> 
>>> Humm.  I comment out the bash line and I add the rxvt line and I get 
>>> the "guick flash."  I do have rxvt installed, so what have I done wrong?
>>>
>>
>> Windows98?
>>
>> What happens if you just double click rxvt.exe from explorer?
>> I get a whit shell with black font scrollbar at the left.
>>
>> Or was it DISPLAY which needs to be exported, though it isn't
>> there if I call rxvt directely:
> 
> 
> 
> rxvt operates in two modes:
>   1) if DISPLAY=:0
>      run in "MS Windows" mode -- don't try to use X routines
>   2) if DISPLAY=anything else (such as 127.0.0.1:0)
>      run in X mode -- you need an Xserver for this to work
> 
> 
>> Try adding:
>> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
>> or this:
>> export DISPLAY=:0
>>
>> to your ~/.bashrc or /etc/profile
> 
> 
> 
> No, that won't help.  Rxvt starts before the bash shell, so you can't 
> set DISPLAY from bash startup scripts.  (I'm assuming that you are 
> double-clicking a shortcut that starts rxvt).  You need to change the 
> DISPLAY settings in (My Computer->Properties->Environment NT/2K) or 
> (autoexec.bat W9x/Me).
> 
> But people REALLY get annoyed if you mess with their autoexec, so there 
> IS another option:
> 
> add '-display :0' to your rxvt command line.

Well, I am saddened to report that this does not fix the issue.


Kent
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