Some mention of this would be very good to put in the documentation here:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-files.html
Just a mention that rxvt is a good alternative for the default windows terminal emulator and that it doesn't require X on Windows but works
with it if present.
Thanks! Jim
Lapo Luchini wrote:
Jim Kleckner wrote:Have a look at the man page and my .Xdefaults[1]...
Thank you for the suggestion. I'm currently using the bare cmd.exe of Win2k and didn't want to have to start X11 just to get a terminal emulator. It seems heavy - is this really necessary? There is probably some magic thing to say in inputrc or terminfo to specify these colors but it has been 20 years since I waded into termcap/terminfo. The manual mentions set_foreground and set_background but it requires a lot of digging to sort out. I was hoping someone could point the way or say "there be dragons".
Cygwin's rxvt port is quite cool, actually: can BOTH run with and without X11.
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