rxvt as Bash login console

[Chris Taylor]

David Christensen wrote:
> 
> Interesting.  But, I ran across some issues:
> 
> 1.  The font looks like a scalable font; I prefer the 7x12 bit-mapped
>     font so that I can put six consoles on my desktop (1280x1024) and
>     the stroke width makes the characters legible.  "man rxvt" and
>     playing around with the "-fn" (7x14, 7x13, 7x12) option didn't
>     produce a desirable result.  Nor did Shift+KP_Add or
>     Shift+KP_Minus. "locate font" led me to
>     /usr/share/groff/1.18.1/font, but grep'ing for "7x14" found
>     nothing.  Is there a way I can get the 7x12 bit-mapped font in
>     rxvt?
> 

The standard cmd.exe font options are related to raster fonts - I've no 
idea if you can get rxvt to use these.
However, lucida console size 12 is also 7x12 - so this should work.. Not 
sure how you'd specify it, beyond that you use -fn.
Can't find the option to set the size, but I imagine that is in the manpage.

> 2.  It looks like there's a slight problem with the rxvt man page:
> 
>         dpchrist@p42800e:~$ man rxvt
>         /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:310: `.' not last character on lin
> e
>         /usr/bin/tbl:<standard input>:310: giving up on this table
> 
>     Looking at the same page using cmd.exe./Bash, the error message
>     flashes by just before the man page is displayed, and is gone after
>     exiting the man page.

I get the same, but I don't know how it affects the page - this needs to 
be flagged to the rxvt maintainer.
It's a lot better than it used to be though (see archives)

> 
> 3.  Copying from the rxvt console to the Windows (XP Professional SP2)
>     clipboard using Ctrl+C causes a new prompt to be displayed.  Is
>     there a way to avoid/ prevent this?  "man rxvt" "/copy" reveals
>     nothing.

Unix style.
Select (left click & drag) to copy to clipboard. Use ctrl-v/shift-ins as 
normal in other apps to paste.
Middle-click to paste in rxvt.
Ctrl-C is supposed to abort the current command, so this is normal 
behaviour.

> 
> 4.  How do I paste from the clipboard to rxvt?  "man rxvt" "/paste"
>     reveals nothing.

See above.

> 
> 5.  The rxvt consoles appear to be always on top.  How do I turn this
>     mode off?
> 

I can't say I've ever had this problem... Did you copy my cygwin.bat 
verbatim, or make changes to it?

Chris

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