rxvt for bash

Charles S. Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Thu Mar 15 07:35:00 GMT 2001


Recently on cygwin-apps:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-03/msg00024.html

Steve O (the "bub" in http://www.io.com/~bub/rxvt.html ) mentioned that
he is interested in contributing his port of rxvt to the official dist. 
He's still working out a few problems, first, though.

--Chuck


Richard Kartas wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I would think it would be a good idea to include rxvt instead of command.com
> as startup for bash.
> 
> I got the following mail from Charles S. Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
> 
> I consider consize/win95cmd a useful help, but not a fix for all of the
> annoying problems unfortunately.  If you're looking for a good console
> to use bash in, I'd suggest the native port of rxvt at
> http://www.io.com/~bub/rxvt.html
> 
> I invoke it with
> 
> d:\cygwin\usr\bin\rxvt.exe -sr -sl 2500 -bg beige -e bash --login
> 
> This works much better than command.com with the default startup batch file
> 
> best regards
> 
> Richard
> 
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