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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: CheapLisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: How to replace default bash window with rxvt / bash shell? > To: cygwin@cygwin.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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [Press Space or Return to end.]v > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/How-to-replace-default-bash-window-with-rxvt---bash-shell--tp18895814p18895814.html > Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: > http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
