Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3C3B0760.8020604@syntrex.com> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 15:51:12 +0100 From: Pavel Tsekov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Peacock CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin console References: <20020108113417 DOT A8402 AT infosat DOT net> <6374-Tue08Jan2002111758+0000-starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk> <1126157253 DOT 20020108122424 AT familiehaase DOT de> <5519-Tue08Jan2002114553+0000-starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk> <3C3B005B.D121F781 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey, John :) John Peacock wrote: > David Starks-Browning wrote: > >>On Tuesday 8 Jan 02, Gerrit P. Haase writes: >> >>>I think `rxvt' should be the default shell for Cygwin after a >>>fresh setup. At least for Win98 users. >>> >>I fully agree, but who is going to do the work? >> >> > > The change is truly trivial: > > --- cygwin.bat.orig Tue Jan 8 09:15:22 2002 > +++ cygwin.bat Tue Jan 8 09:20:22 2002 > @@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ > D: > chdir \cygwin\bin > > -bash --login -i > +start rxvt -sl 300 -e bash --login -i Well, this is fine as long as the rxvt package is installed :) However the current installer doesn't care about this too :) Maybe a new page asking for a preferred shell/console would be useful. This will instruct setup.exe to include the shell/console package exclusively and there will be no more errors of the type - "clicking on cygwin icon produces a just quick flash". However :) This were just my .04 euro cents :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/