X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <183c528b0709190630v5590ac50u2a81995ade28b263@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:30:43 -0400 From: "Brian Mathis" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Passing arguments to rxvt when it is used as an argument for chere In-Reply-To: <373c64180709190238k159cf621mb252815fbf9d19c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <373c64180709190238k159cf621mb252815fbf9d19c@mail.gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 On 9/19/07, Richard Toy wrote: > Hi > > I don't tend to run an xserver so rxvt runs in native mode when > invoked via chere. > > All was working ok but then an issue described here > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-09/msg00359.html occurred so I needed > some was to make the chere invoked rxvt appear with the correct font. > > I solved it with a bit of sed: - > > $ cat chere.sh > chere -ipcf2 -t rxvt -s bash | sed 's! -e /bin! -fn \\"Lucida\ > Console-bold-12\\" -rv -ls -sb -sr -tcw -sl 3000 -e /bin!' > > /tmp/$$.sh > chmod 755 /tmp/$$.sh > /tmp/$$.sh > rm /tmp/$$.sh > > Regards > Richard > In native mode, rxvt still uses the .Xdefaults file to read settings. Here's what I'm using right now with it: rxvt*foreground: gray rxvt*background: black rxvt*geometry: 132x50 rxvt*saveLines: 1000 rxvt*scrollBar: true rxvt*scrollBar_right: true rxvt*loginShell: true rxvt*font: DejaVu Sans Mono-13 I'm sure sed is fun, but there's already a more elegant solution to your problem. -- 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/