On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:45:53AM +0000, David Starks-Browning wrote: >On Tuesday 8 Jan 02, Gerrit P. Haase writes: >> David, >> >> 2002-01-08 12:22:14, du schriebst: >> >> > It probably is worth adding something to the FAQ about this. >> >> I think `rxvt' should be the default shell for Cygwin after a >> fresh setup. At least for Win98 users. > >I fully agree, but who is going to do the work?
The problem is that we'll be switching the "I need a scrollbar!"s with the "Where is the output from <some random windows command>?". cygwin's pty emulation does not work with every windows application. I don't think we should default to using rxvt for this reason. It is so frighteningly trivial to change this that I don't really see a big deal here. The basic problem is that people think that cygwin is a standard inscrutable windows app with no way to control their environment if it isn't an option in setup.exe. Maybe that's what needs to go into the FAQ: "You have the power!" Or, maybe we should get rid of the GUI setup entirely and have people untar stuff themselves so that they realize what's going on. 1/2 :-) cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
