Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3C3B1CD2.3060307@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 11:22:42 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gerrit P. Haase" CC: Kent Perrier , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin console References: <20020108113417.A8402@infosat.net> <6374-Tue08Jan2002111758+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> <1126157253.20020108122424@familiehaase.de> <5519-Tue08Jan2002114553+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> <3C3B005B.D121F781 <3C3B0760.8020604@syntrex.com> <3C3B0A31.1040604@oneco.net> <4120334960.20020108162042@familiehaase.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>Humm. I comment out the bash line and I add the rxvt line and I get the >>"guick flash." I do have rxvt installed, so what have I done wrong? >> > > Windows98? > > What happens if you just double click rxvt.exe from explorer? > I get a whit shell with black font scrollbar at the left. > > Or was it DISPLAY which needs to be exported, though it isn't > there if I call rxvt directely: rxvt operates in two modes: 1) if DISPLAY=:0 run in "MS Windows" mode -- don't try to use X routines 2) if DISPLAY=anything else (such as 127.0.0.1:0) run in X mode -- you need an Xserver for this to work > Try adding: > export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 > or this: > export DISPLAY=:0 > > to your ~/.bashrc or /etc/profile No, that won't help. Rxvt starts before the bash shell, so you can't set DISPLAY from bash startup scripts. (I'm assuming that you are double-clicking a shortcut that starts rxvt). You need to change the DISPLAY settings in (My Computer->Properties->Environment NT/2K) or (autoexec.bat W9x/Me). But people REALLY get annoyed if you mess with their autoexec, so there IS another option: add '-display :0' to your rxvt command line. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/