On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 17:15, Jehan wrote: > Ling F. Zhang wrote: > > well, this is more or less like a windows/dos problem: > > > > I do not like the cygwin dos window, so everytime I > > run cygwin, I go straight to open an xterm with my own > > color and size... > > What about rxvt? It does have its own colors/size and it's a native win > application, no need of X. > > Jehan > Really? I've never been able to get it to do that. It always tells me that it can't open the 'display'.
-- David Means
Never frobnicate without first grokking.
David,
If DISPLAY is set, then rxvt tries to use it and fails if it cannot successfully do so. If you want rxvt to operate in GDI mode, make sure it does not inherit a setting for the DISPLAY variable.
Grok?
Randall Schulz
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