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Re: configure rxvt on cygwin 1.7.5
- From: Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 23:47:52 +0100
- Subject: Re: configure rxvt on cygwin 1.7.5
- References: <i106qt$q32$1@dough.gmane.org>
On 6 July 2010 22:22, philippe wrote:
> - Â/cygwin.bat to replace basic console by rxvt with the line
>
> rxvt -fn "-*-Courier-medium-r-*-18-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" -geometry 80x30
> -sr -bg "#ffffd5" -fg "black" -sl 2000 -termName xterm -e /usr/bin/bash
> --login -i
Setting termName to "xterm" in rxvt is a bad idea, because the two
terminals diverge in various ways, for example regarding keycodes for
modifier key combinations. Better stick with TERM=rxvt.
> - and 've added Â/etc/bashrc with my promt definition :
>
> PS1='\e[0m\][\e[32m\]\u\e[0m\]@\e[31m\]\h\e[0m\]\e[0m\]]\e[34m\]\w\e[0m\]>\n$
> '
>
> this last definition seems to be ignored anyway ...
Have a look at http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Bash-Startup-Files
to see which files are being sourced when bash is invoked with
--login.
Andy
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