Migrating to Cygwin-X

Migrating to Cygwin-X

[Ajay Jain]

Hello,

I used to work with Hummingbird Exceed earlier and then shifted to
putty due to lack of an X-server. However, now I would like to move
back to an X environment and therefore experimenting with Cygwin-X. My
setup is that I have a Windows machine and I remotely connect to a
linux box via ssh.

Considering this I have installed Cygwin and then I run startxwin.sh.
This opens an Xterm. Then I follow the following procedure:

1) Do an xterm -T "mercury" to open up xterms with titles.
2) Do an ssh on mercury to login to linux box.

I face the following issues -

1) The name of the new window is not mercury, it has now changed.
Since I need to open many such windows, I need to name them. Can you
tell me how to accomplish the same?
2) I also need to change the default font. Currently it is too small.
I prefer a fixed widht font with UTF-8 character set as default. Can
anybody suggest something?

Many Thanks in Advance,
Ajay.

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RE: Migrating to Cygwin-X

[Mike Ayers]

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> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
> owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Ajay Jain
> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 9:39 PM

> 1) Do an xterm -T "mercury" to open up xterms with titles.
> 2) Do an ssh on mercury to login to linux box.
> 
> I face the following issues -
> 
> 1) The name of the new window is not mercury, it has now changed.
> Since I need to open many such windows, I need to name them. Can you
> tell me how to accomplish the same?

	Put this in every one of your .bashrc files (i.e. on every machine):

set_title() {
        echo -ne "\033]0;$*\007"
}

	Then if your autogenerated files gank your title, you can gank it right back:

$ set_title mercury

	Here's a more complete setup:

setup() {
        set_title `hostname`
        export PS1='\h$ '
        unalias PROMPT_COMMAND
}

	Which gets rid of the "write a term title after every command" cutesiness.

	Best solution is to learn how the setup files work and modify them to suit yourself.


	HTH,

Mike

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