Re: Problems Starting Xterm using the System Tray Icon for XWin Server

[Craig Moore <craigtmoore at googlemail dot com>]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:34:56 -0500, Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu> wrote:
>> How do I configure the XWin Server so that it opens xterm correctly?
>
>This happens because xterm doesn't start a login shell, and PS1 gets unset. One way around this is to set PS1 in your ~/.bashrc file. For example:
>
> PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ '

I added this to my ~/.bashrc and the problem went away. Thanks!

>> Also, is there a way I can add a shortcut on my desktop to open a new
>> terminal window without having to type 'xterm' in the existing
>> terminal window or the system tray icon?
>
>I use a shortcut with target
>
>C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/xterm -ls -display 127.0.0.1:0.0

Perfect, with this I don't even need to bother with the system tray
icon. However, I do get a small error message when I execute it:

> -bash: Files/MiKTeX: No such file or directory
>
> craig@craig-laptop ~
> $

I imagine that this has something to do with the way cygwin deals with
the PATH variable? Here is the text in my PATH variable as seen from
Cygwin:

> $ echo $PATH
>/cygdrive/c/Users/craig/Programming/scripts:/home/craig/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.7/miktex/bin:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/10.0/DLLShared/:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/DLLShared/:/cygdrive/c/modeltech_6.5c/win32:/cygdrive/c/Users/craig/Software/ant-1.7.1/apache-ant-1.7.1/bin

Alternatively , this is what it looks like from DOS cmd:

> ECHO %PATH%
> C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\10.0\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;C:\modeltech_6.5c\win32;C:\Users\craig\Software\ant-1.7.1\apache-ant-1.7.1\bin

Its not a big problem, but I thought I would make you all aware of it.

Thanks for your help,
Craig

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