On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 03:22:14PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Just to contribute something useful: Chuck Wilson, if you are reading >> this, am I correct in assuming that you don't enjoy maintaining the >> Windows version of rxvt? > >Well, it's my main terminal. I tried MinTTY and I'm not sure yet whether >it will supplant rxvt for my personal use, but it shows promise. > >> If so, should we consider deprecating rxvt in >> favor of MinTTY when MinTTY becomes a real package? >> >> If not, there is no harm in keeping two packages in the distribution. I >> was just trying to lighten your load if you were interested. > >I'd lean toward keeping both in the distro (mainly because I'd hate to >see a never-ending flood of "where'd rxvt go?" queries. That'd be more >of a pain than the relatively infrequent updates that rxvt gets).
Yeah, that would be annoying. Does rxvt actually get updated these days? I visited rxvt.org but that site obviously hasn't seen any obvious love in a long time. >I'd certainly be one of the first encouraging new (and old) cygwin users >to try MinTTY if they dislike the standard cmd console, don't want to >use X, and are aware of the pty issue. > >> The other thing that I've always wanted was some way for the user to >> choose what they want to run without running cygwin.bat by hand. I >> think that would mean setup.exe modification though. > >You mean like another setup.exe pane (or option in an existing pane) to >select the terminal that should be started by the "default" Cygwin link >in the Start Menu? That's an interesting idea... Something like that. I used the word "running" too many times above but what I was thinking was that we should use run login.exe on the desktop and it should pick your startup program of choice. >cgf: hmm...how's that for "lightening my load"? <g> Actually, this plan >^^^^^^ is a lot of work up front but would probably be extremely >low-maintianence after that. But it sounds like a nice way to go... cgf -- 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/
