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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 06:58:58 +0100
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Subject: Re: configure rxvt on cygwin 1.7.5
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On 8 July 2010 23:41, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
> As Jason already informed you, mintty has an options dialog you can use
> to configure it. =C2=A0The equivalents of your rxvt options, except for t=
he
> -e option, can be configured there and saved automatically to
> ~/.minttyrc so that future runs of mintty automatically have the right
> settings without the need for a long, complicated set of command line
> options. =C2=A0However, most if not all of the options can be set via the
> command line as well if that's your preference. =C2=A0See man mintty for =
details.
>
> For your -e option, simply run mintty with a single "-" as the only
> option, i.e. "mintty -". =C2=A0That will tell mintty to run an interactive
> login shell for your user as specified in /etc/passwd. =C2=A0As you'll se=
e in
> the manpage for mintty, mintty does have a -e option, but there really
> isn't any need to be so verbose about the shell to start for most
> people. =C2=A0Set the shell program you want to use in /etc/passwd, and l=
et
> mintty do the rest.

Good advice. Also, it's easiest just to invoke mintty from the start
menu shortcut in the Cygwin folder that's created when mintty is
installed. That already has that '-' argument.

Andy

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