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thanks for the info, but the whole purpose of going from default cygwin bash
to rxvt was to reduce clutter on my screen of having a window open for every
machine and process I am running.

L


Keith Christian wrote:
> 
> Lisa,
> 
> PuTTY, the excellent freeware terminal emulator, has a patched version
> that works excellently with Cygwin.  I used RXVT before finding PuTTY, but
> now use PuTTY exclusively with Cygwin.
> 
> PuTTY has no tabbed interface (yet) but there is a fork of PuTTY, called
> KiTTY, which supports tabs and reportedly runs under Cygwin.
> 
> PuTTY is available here:
> http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/
> 
> KiTTY's home page is here:
> http://www.9bis.net/kitty/?page=Welcome&zone=en
> 
> KiTTY add-ons so that it works with Cytgwin are here:
> http://www.9bis.net/kitty/?page=PuTTYCyg&zone=en
> 
> 
> =======Keith
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 8/8/08, CheapLisa <lisa AT purpleblade DOT net> wrote:
> 
>> From: CheapLisa <lisa AT purpleblade DOT net>
>> Subject: How to replace default bash window with rxvt / bash shell?
>> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>> Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 11:18 AM
>> I want to replace the default cygwin bash window with
>> something where I can
>> have multiple tabs
>> or tab like features.  I do not know of any command line
>> commando that would
>> not want this feature
>> and hope that in the future something else would be
>> provided by default.
>> 
>> It looks like the best combination is "rxvt" and
>> "screen" used together.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> When I do $echo $SHELL, I get /bin/sh and when I type
>> $alias, I get nothing
>> so it has not sourced my environment config files.
>> 
>> ---
>> How do I create a .bat file that launches rxvt with screen
>> and makes all
>> future
>> shells bash and all of them login shell?
>> 
>>  -ls & +ls do nothing.  I have already read the man
>> page on rxvt
>>  
>> --- my current rxvt.bat
>>  @echo off
>> 
>>  C:
>>  chdir C:\cygwin\bin
>> 
>>  rem bash --login -i -e ./term
>>  rxvt -e screen
>>  
>> 
>>  
>>  
>>  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?
>>  
>> =>  This gets displayed and is very nice to read but
>> after the 22nd time I
>> have it memorized and would like to supress it.
>> 
>>  Screen version 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06
>> 
>> Copyright (c) 1993-2002 Juergen Weigert, Michael Schroeder
>> Copyright (c) 1987 Oliver Laumann
>> 
>> This program is free software; you can redistribute it
>> and/or modify it
>> under
>> the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>> the Free
>> Software
>> Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
>> version.
>> 
>> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
>> useful, but WITHOUT
>> ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> MERCHANTABILITY or
>> FITNESS
>> FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
>> License for more
>> details.
>> 
>> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
>> License along with
>> this program (see the file COPYING); if not, write to the
>> Free Software
>> Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 
>> 02111-1307, USA.
>> 
>> Send bugreports, fixes, enhancements, t-shirts, money, beer
>> & pizza to
>> screen AT uni-erlangen DOT de
>> 
>> 
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