Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/08/08/16:17:11
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 <lisa AT purpleblade DOT net> wrote:
>
>> From: CheapLisa <lisa AT purpleblade DOT net>
>> Subject: How to replace default bash window with rxvt / bash shell?
>> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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
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>> the Free
>> Software
>> Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
>> version.
>>
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>> details.
>>
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>>
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>>
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