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From: ncokwqc02@sneakemail.com To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Convenient script for starting an XFree86 xterm Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 06:38:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <21518-78342@sneakemail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0402282039060.19703@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> I've seen some other postings on this subject recently, so I'm submitting this contribution as a potential starting point for others. I have convenient Windows desktop shortcuts to start up a Cygwin/Bash shell window and an RXVT/Bash shell window. I was looking for something similar to start up a Cygwin/XFree86 xterm. Of course, I didn't want to generate multiple running copies of the 'XWin' server, nor did I want useless Command prompt windows hanging around. Here's what I came up with. I make no claim to generality, robustness, cleverness, originality or anything else. It just works for me. It consists of three parts: 1) A desktop shortcut with the following target: C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\WSCRIPT.EXE "C:\cygwin\invisible.vbs" "C:\cygwin\XFree86xterm.bat" 2) A VB shell script named 'C:\cygwin\invisible.vbs' containing the single line: CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run """" & WScript.Arguments(0) & """", 0, False 3) A DOS shell script named 'C:\cygwin\XFree86xterm.bat' containing the following lines: ------------------------------------------------------------------- @echo off ps -ef | grep /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin > nul if ERRORLEVEL 1 ( start /DC:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin /B XWin -multiwindow -clipboard ) set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\xterm -fn 10x20 -sl 1000 -sb -leftbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash --login -i ------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: - The shortcut starts the Windows scripting language, which runs the simple Visual Basic script. - The VB script runs the DOS shell script without generating a Command window. - The DOS shell script - Starts 'XWin' with my preferred switches as a background process if no such process is already running, - Sets DISPLAY to the 'localhost:0.0', which the 'xterm' will inherit, and - Starts a login bash shell in an XFree86 xterm with some decent extra settings. john
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-02 6:38 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top [not found] <Pine.GSO.4.56.0402282039060.19703@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> 2004-03-02 6:38 ` ncokwqc02 [this message] 2004-03-02 15:06 Thomas Chadwick 2004-03-02 18:42 ncokwqc02 2004-03-06 10:21 frederic bregier
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