X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: How to replace default bash window with rxvt / bash shell? Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:47:06 -0500 Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: <18895814.post@talk.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: <18895814.post@talk.nabble.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 CheapLisa wrote: > I want to replace the default cygwin bash window with something where I c= an > have multiple tabs > or tab like features. I do not know of any command line commando that wo= uld > not want this feature > and hope that in the future something else would be provided by default. >=20 > It looks like the best combination is "rxvt" and "screen" used together. There's other options with real tabs, Terminator is one, another was=20 discussed recently on this list. They all have glitches, I use mrxvt=20 but that one needs Cygwin/X or similar running. > So I was able to crate an rxvt.bat file and create a short cut to it (icon > on desktop) > but when it launches it is not the bash shell nor is it a login shell. You don't need a batch file, just create a shortcut, edit its properties=20 and put something like: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -sl 2048 -geometry +56+616 -e /bin/bash --login -i in the target field. You may also add a nice icon (for instance=20 C:\Cygwin\cygwin.ico) > When I do $echo $SHELL, I get /bin/sh and when I type $alias, I get nothi= ng > so it has not sourced my environment config files. That's controlled by the parameters you pass to bash, that's why the=20 "--login -i" is there above. [snip] > Also when running the screen command I always get some text and then > instructions > to press the spacebar/or enter. That is very nice but how is this > surpressed? Don't use screen (not recently anyway) but isn't it there a "quiet" option? --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- 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/