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Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 20:33:29 +0100
From: David Selby <cygwin AT pusspaws DOT net>
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Subject: Re: starting up in rxvt ?
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fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net wrote:

>Do not start with a bash process. If you try starting things with
>
>        Start -> Run -> c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/bash
>
>that will start a rxvt terminal which reads ~/.bashrc. If you try
>
>        Start -> Run -> c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i
>
>that will start a rxvt terminal which reads /etc/profile then
>~/.bash_profile.
>
>After "rxvt" but before "-e" insert switches for rxvt if you want them,
>like -bg blue -fg yellow and that sort of thing.
>
>All this assumes you are not running XWin. If you have previously set
>DISPLAY and have started XWin using start XWin -multiwindow, then you can
>start a rxvt session as above prefixed with the command "run ".
>
>Fergus
>
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Hello,

I read the FAQ on "is there an alternative to standard console window?", 
and pulled the |/usr/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-<ver>.README|. before I emailed.

 I did not realise I could call rxvt from windows I thought it had to be 
called & executed from bash.

Thank you for putting me right. I have tried it ....

   Start -> Run -> c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i

does just what I want

Cheers
Dave

 :-) 


PS have another problem, will post seperate query !




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