Re: RXVT Problem

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Leonardo M. Ramà wrote:
> Hi, since a couple of days I'm experiencing a weird problem with RXVT.
>
> Let me detail my configuration:
>
> According to "uname -a":
>
> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 LEONARDO 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin

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> I'm using Win2000-SP4, and I've created a shortcut in the quick launch 
> bar to start an RXVT terminal with this parameters:
>
> Target: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e bash --login
> Start in: C:\cygwin\bin
>
> The problem is when I click this shortcut, the terminal opens and closes 
> immediately, this doesn't happen if I change Target to: 
> "C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe", leaving out "-e bash --login".
>
> Also, if I open a bash terminal (in text mode), and inside it I call 
> "rxvt -e bash --login", it starts as it should.
>
> What can be causing this behavior?

In my environment, I could reproduce this across the board because
DISPLAY was defined in my Windows environment.  I can't tell if you
have  a similar problem but I would recommend looking for these
kinds of environmental differences between Cygwin processes and
Windows.

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