Re: mintty functionality

2013-08-24 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/24/2013 6:58 AM, wynfi...@gmail.com wrote: > The normal way works and even >$ PATH=${PATH}: mintty cmd > > The command line invokation is no problem. > > But, I couldn't do with a desktop shortcut with something like: > > mkshortcut -w /tmp -D -A -d "Run orpie RPN calculater." -n "

Re: mintty functionality

2013-08-24 Thread Robert Marklund
So should this not work ? mkshortcut -w /tmp -D -A -d "Run orpie RPN calculater." -n "Orpie RPN Calculater" -i /home/djh/icons/hp_calc.ico -a " -p '100,150' -t 'Orpie Calculater' -e \"PATH=${PATH}: /usr/bin/orpie\"" /bin/mintty.exe /R 2013/8/24 : > > The normal way works and even >$ PAT

Re: Problems in configuring Perl on Cygwin-64

2013-08-24 Thread Jeremy Hetzler
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Paul King wrote: > I have run into unusual problems in configuring Perl from the time I > began using perl on my new Windows 7 installation (which was two days > ago). > > I wanted to introduce libraries into the Perl distro, and my customary > way of doing this is

Re: mintty functionality

2013-08-24 Thread wynfield
The normal way works and even $ PATH=${PATH}: mintty cmd The command line invokation is no problem. But, I couldn't do with a desktop shortcut with something like: mkshortcut -w /tmp -D -A -d "Run orpie RPN calculater." -n "Orpie RPN Calculater" -i /home/djh/icons/hp_calc.ico -a " -p

wish(Tk) crashes without fontconfig, but fontconfig is not installed as a dependency

2013-08-24 Thread nu774
Hi, Without fontconfig, wish(Tk) seems to crash on the attempt to create widgets (which requires some fonts to render text) like the following: $ DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 wish % label .l -text "foo" <--- crash It seems that libfontconfig is already installed; but is there any reason not to install f

Re: mintty functionality

2013-08-24 Thread Robert Marklund
Doesn't the normal terminal way work? PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH command Or for library: LIBRARY_PATH=my/path:$LIBRARY_PATH command /R 2013/8/24 : > > I am attempting to create a desktop icon for cygwin based applicatin. > > I am using > mkshortcut and mintty with the program to be invoked's nam

mintty functionality

2013-08-24 Thread wynfield
I am attempting to create a desktop icon for cygwin based applicatin. I am using mkshortcut and mintty with the program to be invoked's name as am argument to mintty. The problem I'm encountering is that the applicatin that mintty is to run requires /usr/lib/lapack which is not in PAT