Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 09:38:22 +0100 From: Elfyn McBratney X-X-Sender: elfyn@ellixia Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: poff cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: TERM problems In-Reply-To: <20030708082536.GA4105@freeshell.org> Message-ID: References: <20030707162951.GA19507@freeshell.org> <3F0A2048.7080805@nigels.com> <20030708082536.GA4105@freeshell.org> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, poff wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:37:12AM +1000, Nigel Stewart wrote: > > Try rxvt instead of the dosbox cosole... > > rxvt -sl 1000 -rv -geometry 120x30 +sr -e bash -i > > Did the job thanks. > > To emulate that "dos" feel a bit more I used: > > rxvt -sl 1000 -ls -rv -geometry 100x30 -sr -e pdksh -l > > So here are a few q's to complete my new "Terminal Software": > > -I tried -fn Terminal but that didn't work. How can I load the Windows Hmm, are you sure you have a "Terminal" font? I'm on XP and don't see it..maybe they got rid of it on XP. > Terminal font instead of this rather thin and small one? > -Anyway I can get right-clicking to equal ctrl-ins (paste)? I don't think so. If you have a wheel mouse, you can just click it, however. > -How can I get the del key to work and not show "~" instead I very, very rarely use rxvt, but I seem to remember `stty erase ^?' doing the trick for me way back when. > -How can I get the backspace key to work where SOMETIMES it's shown as ^H IIRC, The rxvt argument `-backspacekey' e.g., `... -backspacekey ^H'. HTH, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB http://www.emcb.co.uk elfyn@emcb.co.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/