From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 121472 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2017 14:31:17 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 121366 invoked by uid 89); 23 Jun 2017 14:31:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=galaxy, UD:a.k.a, UD:k.a, a.k.a X-HELO: out3-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:31:10 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id A83752084C for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:31:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:31:08 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-158-32-120.range86-158.btcentralplus.com [86.158.32.120]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 548852480C for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:31:08 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: rxvt won't stay running To: The Cygwin Mailing List References: <20170622094542.GW1003@mrvideo.vidiot.com> <20170622200001.GA1003@mrvideo.vidiot.com> From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <48af8837-5c55-3b88-307f-e492f258463c@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:31:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170622200001.GA1003@mrvideo.vidiot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-06/txt/msg00286.txt.bz2 On 22/06/2017 21:00, Mike Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 09:12:45AM -0500, Ren?? Berber wrote: >> On 6/22/2017 4:45 AM, Mike Brown wrote: >>> I've installed the latest (as of this writing) Cygwin base and a few other >>> packages. >> [snip] >>> Any ideas why it is failing? Something you need me to look at? It isn't >>> anything in the home files that I copied over from the XP box, because before >>> I did that, I tried starting and it flashed and died. >> >> A long time ago rxvt changed from supporting Windows (native) to only >> working under X-Windows (a.k.a. Cygwin/X or equivalent). See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2016-03/msg00100.html > Ah, so in a galaxy far, far, away, it just might work. :-) > > Thanks for the reason it no longer works. To be clear: rxvt still works as an X terminal (although if you have need of such a thing, I'd strongly suggest you stop using rxvt and instead use something which has had release this decade, e.g. urxvt) If you want a windows terminal, use mintty. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple