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Re: remapping Cygwin 'bash' readline functions to PC keys
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Bruce Dawson <jbd at codemeta dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:13:23 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: remapping Cygwin 'bash' readline functions to PC keys
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On 20 Feb 2003, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> I may be missing part of the conversation here, but
> so far as I know, rxvt is only useful if you're running
> a X server. (I don't have a cygwin system handy
> to be sure.) Lee: I don't think this applies to your
> problem.
>
> I may have put people off-track with my last message on
> this thread - because my comments only applies to users
> running remotely or through a terminal server, and not
> to cygwin systems.
>
> --Bruce
Bruce,
Cygwin rxvt can run without X using the W11 library it comes with. It
will, however, switch to true X mode if DISPLAY is set. To run it
remotely, you do have to use X (yeah, I know, barring VNC and all that)...
Igor
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