thanks for the info, but the whole purpose of going from default cygwin bash to rxvt was to reduce clutter on my screen of having a window open for every machine and process I am running.
L Keith Christian wrote: > > Lisa, > > PuTTY, the excellent freeware terminal emulator, has a patched version > that works excellently with Cygwin. I used RXVT before finding PuTTY, but > now use PuTTY exclusively with Cygwin. > > PuTTY has no tabbed interface (yet) but there is a fork of PuTTY, called > KiTTY, which supports tabs and reportedly runs under Cygwin. > > PuTTY is available here: > http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/ > > KiTTY's home page is here: > http://www.9bis.net/kitty/?page=Welcome&zone=en > > KiTTY add-ons so that it works with Cytgwin are here: > http://www.9bis.net/kitty/?page=PuTTYCyg&zone=en > > > =======Keith > > > > --- On Fri, 8/8/08, CheapLisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: CheapLisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: How to replace default bash window with rxvt / bash shell? >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com >> Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 11:18 AM >> I want to replace the default cygwin bash window with >> something where I can >> have multiple tabs >> or tab like features. I do not know of any command line >> commando that would >> not want this feature >> and hope that in the future something else would be >> provided by default. >> >> It looks like the best combination is "rxvt" and >> "screen" used together. >> >> So I was able to crate an rxvt.bat file and create a short >> cut to it (icon >> on desktop) >> but when it launches it is not the bash shell nor is it a >> login shell. >> >> When I do $echo $SHELL, I get /bin/sh and when I type >> $alias, I get nothing >> so it has not sourced my environment config files. >> >> --- >> How do I create a .bat file that launches rxvt with screen >> and makes all >> future >> shells bash and all of them login shell? >> >> -ls & +ls do nothing. I have already read the man >> page on rxvt >> >> --- my current rxvt.bat >> @echo off >> >> C: >> chdir C:\cygwin\bin >> >> rem bash --login -i -e ./term >> rxvt -e screen >> >> >> >> >> Also when running the screen command I always get some >> text and then >> instructions >> to press the spacebar/or enter. That is very nice but how >> is this >> surpressed? >> >> => This gets displayed and is very nice to read but >> after the 22nd time I >> have it memorized and would like to supress it. >> >> Screen version 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06 >> >> Copyright (c) 1993-2002 Juergen Weigert, Michael Schroeder >> Copyright (c) 1987 Oliver Laumann >> >> This program is free software; you can redistribute it >> and/or modify it >> under >> the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by >> the Free >> Software >> Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later >> version. >> >> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be >> useful, but WITHOUT >> ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of >> MERCHANTABILITY or >> FITNESS >> FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public >> License for more >> details. >> >> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public >> License along with >> this program (see the file COPYING); if not, write to the >> Free Software >> Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA >> 02111-1307, USA. >> >> Send bugreports, fixes, enhancements, t-shirts, money, beer >> & pizza to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> [Press Space or Return to end.]v >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/How-to-replace-default-bash-window-with-rxvt---bash-shell--tp18895814p18895814.html >> Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at >> Nabble.com. >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe info: >> http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-replace-default-bash-window-with-rxvt---bash-shell--tp18895814p18898370.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
