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: <3C3B2124.70609@oneco.net> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:41:08 -0600 From: Kent Perrier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 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> <3C3B1CD2.3060307@ece.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 1/8/2002 10:22 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: > 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. Well, I am saddened to report that this does not fix the issue. Kent -- "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm" -- George Orwell -- 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/