Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:39:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Ilsundal To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Subject: XTerm issues. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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. 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. :) -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com