Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/05/16/15:30:31
Lloeki wrote:
>> How is this better than simply using rxvt?
> I used rxvt for some time but puttycyg rolls better for me.
> - I remember accented chars (french) often got messed up and that was
> a pain to fix.
> - I never manager to make rxvt display special chars correctly (mc and
> others look like crap without them) and even if i did, that meant
> giving up accented chars, as rxvt supplied fonts are ASCII 127 chars,
> not Ext ASCII 255 chars.
> - Switching rxvt fonts under native windows gives weird spacing. Any
> font I found (incl. by STFW) that would supposedly work was either
> english-only 127 characters, not mapping accented chars correctly,
> not mapping special chars correctly, or both.
> => everything works OOTB with puttycyg. There were other things here
> and there that were finally turning me away of rxvt.
>
> Note that it's _only_ valid on _native_ windows, not X11 (which I
> don't use, so I didn't test), where it wouldn't have much meaning to
> compare them. There might just be ways to fix things under X but as I
> was not interested in running it, I skipped researching it.
>
> There's but one thing I regret from rxvt in puttycyg: if a process
> forks in the background, and I exit the login shell, rxvt closes its
> window and the process continues to run, while puttycyg will keep the
> window opened until the process goes down (kill or whatever through
> another console). it seemed to behave the same with cmd console.
> Sometimes it's "useful" when you forgot to kill that lighttpd you ran
> just for testing, sometimes not, when you spawn another console ($
> putty &) and you want to close only the former. Especially, closing
> the former the hard way will close the latter too.
>
> Just to be clear : I'm not saying puttycyg is better, I'm just saying
> it fits my needs.
Well I have no need for accented characters but if I hear you correctly
you're also saying that other characters such as line drawing characters
work better with puttycyg. That'd be one reason to go to it. However I
occasionally run X and really would not like puttycyg's behavior WRT
backgrounded processes. Thanks for the explanation though.
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patients," but another kept reminding me, "Howard, you are a
veterinarian." - Roger Matthews
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