From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17808 invoked by alias); 12 Jan 2009 00:37:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 17795 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jan 2009 00:37:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-96-233-71-199.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (96.233.71.199) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:36:40 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739D313C028 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:36:30 -0500 (EST) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 71C1A2B385; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:36:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:42:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MinTTY "vs" rxvt (was Re: MinTTY 0.3.3) Message-ID: <20090112003630.GC21040@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20090111040508.GA8342@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <496A54F6.7020107@cwilson.fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <496A54F6.7020107@cwilson.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00309.txt.bz2 On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 03:22:14PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Just to contribute something useful: Chuck Wilson, if you are reading >> this, am I correct in assuming that you don't enjoy maintaining the >> Windows version of rxvt? > >Well, it's my main terminal. I tried MinTTY and I'm not sure yet whether >it will supplant rxvt for my personal use, but it shows promise. > >> If so, should we consider deprecating rxvt in >> favor of MinTTY when MinTTY becomes a real package? >> >> If not, there is no harm in keeping two packages in the distribution. I >> was just trying to lighten your load if you were interested. > >I'd lean toward keeping both in the distro (mainly because I'd hate to >see a never-ending flood of "where'd rxvt go?" queries. That'd be more >of a pain than the relatively infrequent updates that rxvt gets). Yeah, that would be annoying. Does rxvt actually get updated these days? I visited rxvt.org but that site obviously hasn't seen any obvious love in a long time. >I'd certainly be one of the first encouraging new (and old) cygwin users >to try MinTTY if they dislike the standard cmd console, don't want to >use X, and are aware of the pty issue. > >> The other thing that I've always wanted was some way for the user to >> choose what they want to run without running cygwin.bat by hand. I >> think that would mean setup.exe modification though. > >You mean like another setup.exe pane (or option in an existing pane) to >select the terminal that should be started by the "default" Cygwin link >in the Start Menu? That's an interesting idea... Something like that. I used the word "running" too many times above but what I was thinking was that we should use run login.exe on the desktop and it should pick your startup program of choice. >cgf: hmm...how's that for "lightening my load"? Actually, this plan >^^^^^^ is a lot of work up front but would probably be extremely >low-maintianence after that. But it sounds like a nice way to go... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/