Cygwin Visuals

[Andrew DeFaria]

Diego Costa wrote:
> Please how can i configure the cygwin shell to be exactly like the 
> solaris command prompt ?
By using the same shell and startup files as you do on Solaris! I have a 
set of rc files that I use on HP-UX, Solaris, FreeBDS, Linux and Cygwin. 
All of them give me a consistent environment (involved environment too 
with many aliases/functions for things like IBM/Rational's Clearcase and 
Multisite).

And rxvt is a very good substitute for the cruddy Window cmd window. 
Some things you should like is the ability to resize the rxvt window and 
have say vim just dynamically sense it and adjust. Also copy and paste 
is, for lack of a better term, normal.

Rxvt does not come from Cygwin by default but you can run cygwin.exe and 
search the full listing for it. As it has been said, rxvt can run 
without the heaviness of having to download, install, configure and run 
an X server. It still pays attention to things like ~/.Xdefaults. All in 
all a very good middle ground.

I configure Windows shortcuts to use Cygwin's run.exe program (starts a 
process without having a cmd window terminal pop up) to run rxvt. I then 
use -name to call out a class of .Xdefaults to color and otherwise 
configure the class of terminals (so let's say servers are dark 
backgrounds while desktops are light backgrons) then -e to have rxvt 
exec an ssh to a particular machine. I arrange these in a menu such that 
I just need to open the menu and select the proper machine and viola! An 
rxvt terminal comes up logged into the machine in question. I set up 
preshared ssh keys so that I don't have to constantly be typing in my 
password 1000 times a day and bam! A much more convenient work 
environment. I can be ssh'ed into an HP-UX, Solaris, FreeBDS or Linux 
box - even another Windows box courtesy of Cygwin, and develop software, 
work with Clearcase, build, etc. in my customized and efficient command 
line environment and it all works relatively the same everywhere!
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
C:\> Bad command or file name! Go stand in the corner.


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