From: jsturm@sigma6.com (Jeff Sturm) Subject: Re: XTerm issues. 12 Sep 1998 05:54:07 -0700 Message-ID: <35F9634F.F8233AAD.cygnus.gnu-win32@sigma6.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ilsundal Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Ilsundal wrote: > > Hello, here are a few things I've run into with XTerm, and am wondering if > there are any solutions. > > This is what's been bothering me the most -- when I am in an XTerm, if I > run any text application such as pico, edit.com, etc., the display for the > program goes to whatever cygnus bash session window I invoked the Xterm > from, or the cygnus bash session window I invoked my window manager from. > This is very annoying, and makes the use of XTerms quite useless. No idea... I've called CMD.EXE in an xterm w/o problem. Are you running NT or 95/98? > Another thing I was wondering was, is there any way to tell xterm which > type of shell to use? I know that's a bit confusing, but here's what I'm > trying to do. I made a copy of the cygnus.bat file, and called it > xterm.bat. I replaced the last line "bash" with "xterm" and set my > display variables within the batch file. XTerm pops up fine, although > there's nothing within it. It's basically just a blank screen. The > reason I want to do this, is so I can make an "xterm" icon on my desktop, > which gives me the ability to run xterms, without having to invoke a text > dos window, load cygnus, and then run an xterm. That's just too much work > to be doing. :) xterm -e /bin/bash -- Jeff Sturm jsturm@sigma6.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".