Re: starting up in rxvt ?

[David Selby <cygwin at pusspaws dot net>]

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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