From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20333 invoked by alias); 12 Dec 2011 15:45:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 20318 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Dec 2011 15:45:30 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL,TW_RX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu (HELO authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) (128.253.83.141) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:45:16 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (cpe-67-249-194-47.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.194.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id pBCFjEEB010961 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:45:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4EE62188.5050000@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:45:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Latest cygwin.bat - need one References: <20111212054801.GD4028@mrvideo.vidiot.com> <20111212063131.GE4028@mrvideo.vidiot.com> In-Reply-To: <20111212063131.GE4028@mrvideo.vidiot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2011-12/txt/msg00275.txt.bz2 On 12/12/2011 1:31 AM, Mike Brown wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:48:01PM -0600, Mike Brown wrote: > Suggestions for document improvement: > > FAQ addition to show how to modify the cygwin.bat file, or a copied file for > modification, in order to be able to run rxvt to start a better terminal. > This would solve the issue of users upgrading and their BAT file being broken. > Be sure to explain that "/bin/" is now required. > > Same thing with the main documention. There are pieces about starting the > shell, but absolutely nothing about using a better terminal (rxvt) and how > to start/configure it. > > Hell, why not make the use of rxvt standard in the default BAT file. The > rxvt terminal is many times superior to the Windblows cmd terminal. There is no longer a default BAT file, and the Windows console is no longer the default terminal. The default terminal is now mintty. The current setup.exe creates desktop and start menu shortcuts to start it. This was announced in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2011-11/msg00043.html Ken -- 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