X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <467998F4.6000908@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:15:32 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070331) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: using chere References: <46796B90.3@princeton.edu> <46797188.3050501@gmail.com> <46798085.5060608@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Dave Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Lewis Hyatt wrote: > Lewis Hyatt wrote: > >> OK, one last thing, sorry. I did something wrong with the last test. >> If I add c:\cygwin\bin and c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin to the Windows PATH >> variable, then chere does work to open up an xterm! >> >> So I guess the only question is: is there any way to avoid this >> requirement? It would be helpful for me if I didn't have to add these >> to the path. I'm not sure how chere is implemented, but could it just >> set these variables before calling the xterm? Thanks again. > > > Continuing this barrage of replies to myself... I was able to make this > work the way I want. I just modified the registry keys myself, following > the output of chere -p, and replaced > > c:\cygwin\bin\run.exe > > with > > c:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p c:\cygwin\bin -p c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin > > I wonder if this might be useful enough to become the default behavior? > Presumably chere is already able to detection the location of the cygwin > directory, since it finds run.exe... Thanks for chasing this down. Looks like I'm going to have do a bit of testing to confirm an appropriate solution for starting xterm. Regards, Dave. chere maintainer -- 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/