X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: rxvt and line-drawing characters Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:46:44 -0800 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <4406222B.F2EB92DA@dessent.net> <440669A1.65F0752C@dessent.net> <4406767C.5030109@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <441F673C.8000206@fastmail.fm> <441FA189.6010605@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: <441FA189.6010605@cwilson.fastmail.fm> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Charles Wilson wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> Charles Wilson wrote: >>> Basically, you're stuck with 'pstree -A'. >> Works in Cygwin but not on my Linux box (Fedora Core 3): >> >> Jupiter:pstree -A >> pstree: invalid option -- A >> usage: pstree [ -a ] [ -c ] [ -h | -H pid ] [ -l ] [ -n ] [ -p ] [ -u ] >> [ -G | -U ] [ pid | user] >> pstree -V > > Hmm. So, you're ssh'ed in to your linux box from your cygwin machine, > using a terminal emulator under cygwin but executing pstree on the > linux system. Yup > > Ah. > > Well, you can try xterm instead. It intercepts the VT-100 control > sequences and draws the box "glyphs" itself, without regard to the > font you're using. So it kinda always works. Didn't see the need to run a resource consuming X server just to do basically non graphical work. > > Also, rxvt-unicode does the same thing (see > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-03/msg00119.html ) Also X heavy from what I read. > > But both of those options work only if you're using a local X-server > on your cygwin machine, to display the locally-running terminal > emulator program (xterm or rxvt-unicode). > Yes, not really looking to start up a heavy X server just to do essentially character mode I/O. -- 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/