Re: rxvt as Bash login console

2005-10-19 Thread Linus Hicks
Harig, Mark wrote: --- snip I have also found that under some circumstances, the backspace key does not work properly. The following setting fixed that problem: rxvt*ttyModes: erase ^? Bash seems to be very forgiving of what it uses as the backspace character, so no problem there,

RE: rxvt as Bash login console

2005-10-19 Thread Harig, Mark
> > > I was able to reduce my rxvt.bat file to this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat rxvt.bat > @echo off > rem $Id: rxvt.bat,v 1.1 2005/10/18 04:17:23 dpchrist Exp $ > C: > chdir C:\cygwin\bin > rxvt -fn "Lucida Console-11" -e /bin/bash --login -i > You should be able to

RE: rxvt as Bash login console

2005-10-18 Thread Karl M
From: "David Christensen" CC: "'Eric Blake'" Subject: RE: rxvt as Bash login console Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:25:12 -0700 Eric Blake wrote: > $ cat ~/.Xdefaults > ! Fix rxvt to mimic windows console coloring > XTerm*background: black > XTerm*foregr

RE: rxvt as Bash login console

2005-10-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, David Christensen wrote: > Okay. I ran Cygwin setup and changed the "Default Text File Type" to > "Unix/ binary": > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cygcheck -s -v -r | grep mode > C:\cygwin / system binmode > C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode > C

RE: rxvt as Bash login console

2005-10-17 Thread David Christensen
Eric Blake wrote: > $ cat ~/.Xdefaults > ! Fix rxvt to mimic windows console coloring > XTerm*background: black > XTerm*foreground: gray > XTerm*geometry: 80x50 > XTerm*jumpScroll: True > XTerm*scrollBar_right: True "man rxvt" and this page were helpful: http://www.xfree86.org/current/xterm.1

Re: rxvt as Bash login console

2005-10-17 Thread Brian Dessent
David Christensen wrote: > Yes, that's better. :-) But, I still like Cygwin Bash's use of gray for > text, > white for bolding, cyan (?) in perldoc pages, etc., and the way I can control > things via the DOS box Properties. But, I have and will use rxvt for "top" on > Debian 3.1 until the extr

Re: rxvt as Bash login console

2005-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to David Christensen on 10/17/2005 7:52 PM: > > Yes, that's better. :-) But, I still like Cygwin Bash's use of gray for > text, > white for bolding, cyan (?) in perldoc pages, etc., and the way I can control > things via the DOS box Prope

RE: rxvt as Bash login console

2005-10-17 Thread David Christensen
Brian Dessent wrote: > I use -fn "Lucida Console-11... Yes, that's better. :-) But, I still like Cygwin Bash's use of gray for text, white for bolding, cyan (?) in perldoc pages, etc., and the way I can control things via the DOS box Properties. But, I have and will use rxvt for "top" on Debian

RE: rxvt as Bash login console

2005-10-17 Thread David Christensen
I wrote: > 3. Copying from the rxvt console > 4. How do I paste from the clipboard to rxvt? ... Chris Taylor wrote: > Unix style. Yup. > I can't say I've ever had this problem... Did you copy my cygwin.bat > verbatim, or make changes to it? Uh, yeah! (Quickly find previous message, c

Re: rxvt as Bash login console

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Taylor
David Christensen wrote: Interesting. But, I ran across some issues: 1. The font looks like a scalable font; I prefer the 7x12 bit-mapped font so that I can put six consoles on my desktop (1280x1024) and the stroke width makes the characters legible. "man rxvt" and playing around

Re: rxvt as Bash login console

2005-10-16 Thread Brian Dessent
David Christensen wrote: > 1. The font looks like a scalable font; I prefer the 7x12 bit-mapped > font so that I can put six consoles on my desktop (1280x1024) and > the stroke width makes the characters legible. "man rxvt" and > playing around with the "-fn" (7x14, 7x13, 7x12) optio

rxvt as Bash login console

2005-10-16 Thread David Christensen
Chris Taylor wrote: > It should be pointed out that rxvt can be used in place of CMD.EXE, > which is what is started by the Cygwin icon created by setup. > If you want to do that, here is my cygwin.bat: > @echo off > C: > chdir C:\cygwin\bin > rxvt -sl 1 -sr +sk -si -sw -fg Green -bg Black -e