I'm trying to write batch scripts of the kind that start a Cygwin
session in rxvt from the desktop, with the added feature that the
session starts in a folder other than $HOME. I want to do this for two
folders I use often.
I know urxvt has a -cd command, and thought rxvt in Cygwin did too. I
tried this code
@echo off
C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin
start rxvt -display :0 -sl 2500 -sr -tn rxvt-cygwin-native -geometry 80x25 -font
"Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-14" -e /bin/bash --login -i -cd
/cygdrive/c/blu/newest/
exit
The results are that I see an RXVT window for about a blink or two, then
nothing. With slight modifications (such as invoking a shell script --
tested and working otherwise -- to do the directory change for me), I'm
getting "flashes" or "there-&-gones" by both the Command prompt and rxvt.
I have only found one archived post on the mailing list where someone
was trying to do exactly this thing. It was posted in the first half of
2009, if I remember correctly. No solution was posted to that thread.
I find it hard to believe this isn't possible, or that such a thing as
the "right combination" of batch and shell script code can't accomplish
it. I'd have to be persuaded this was the case before I gave up
altogether, with information and/or insights that drew upon the flaws of
Cygwin or Windows or both in tandem.
Hope someone can give this another look and offer advice.
SJ Wright
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