start xterm automatically

start xterm automatically

[andreaphus]

I'd like to set it so that when I run cygwin it automatically launches an
xterm shell but Im having problems.

I normally run cygwin and then run startxwin.bat (which works fine). I can
not just put startxwin.bat in .bash_profile because it will loop opening
shells (it resourced .bash_profile everytime which in turns opens a new
xterm). I thought this might because the xterm I was opening up in
startxwin.bat was a login shell but I changed the xterm command from -ls to
+ls (a non login shell, and thus it should not resource .bash_profile but it
still does).

Ideally I want to run cygwin, have it automatically open a login xterm
shell, and then auto close the cygwin shell.

Any suggestions.
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Re: start xterm automatically

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

On 09/09/2009 09:47 PM, andreaphus wrote:
>
> I'd like to set it so that when I run cygwin it automatically launches an
> xterm shell but Im having problems.
>
> I normally run cygwin and then run startxwin.bat (which works fine). I can
> not just put startxwin.bat in .bash_profile because it will loop opening
> shells (it resourced .bash_profile everytime which in turns opens a new
> xterm). I thought this might because the xterm I was opening up in
> startxwin.bat was a login shell but I changed the xterm command from -ls to
> +ls (a non login shell, and thus it should not resource .bash_profile but it
> still does).
>
> Ideally I want to run cygwin, have it automatically open a login xterm
> shell, and then auto close the cygwin shell.

I assume you're starting Cygwin with cygwin.bat.  How do you start that?
Is there a reason you cannot start startxwin.bat the same way?

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Re: start xterm automatically

[Csaba Raduly]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:47 AM, andreaphus <andrealphus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to set it so that when I run cygwin it automatically launches an
> xterm shell but Im having problems.
>
(snip)
>
> Ideally I want to run cygwin, have it automatically open a login xterm
> shell, and then auto close the cygwin shell.
>

Doesn't your startxwin.bat start an xterm after the X server? I always
had to comment that out (I run startxwin at startup).

Instead of xterm, you may consider using rxvt (which has the advantage
of working with or without X). I don't use cygwin.bat anymore; just a
shortcut with

rxvt <some other options> -e bash --login

Hope this helps.
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