From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 72285 invoked by alias); 2 Sep 2019 14:52:59 -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 72278 invoked by uid 89); 2 Sep 2019 14:52:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA,FREEMAIL_FROM,RDNS_DYNAMIC,TVD_RCVD_IP autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=dos, H*r:4.89, 02092019, H*UA:x64 X-HELO: blaine.gmane.org Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no (HELO blaine.gmane.org) (195.159.176.226) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 14:52:58 +0000 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i4nhP-00127L-VN for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 02 Sep 2019 16:52:55 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Franz Fehringer Subject: Re: gnome-terminal desktop shortcut Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 14:52:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 Openpgp: preference=signencrypt In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-09/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 This works for me with - DISPLAY=:0 at toplevel Windows (DOS) level - Cygwin bin (last) in the Windows (DOS) path The desktop link is C:\Tools\Cygwin\bin\run.exe C:\Tools\Cygwin\bin\gnome-terminal.exe One essential point is to use UTF-8 I have LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 both at Windows (DOS) and Cygwin level (though Windows level is not optimal if you use mingw64 GUI applications). If things do not work you can execute from Windows (DOS) cmd and check the exit code. There is an internet page for explaining them. Am 02.09.2019 um 07:14 schrieb Amadeus WM via cygwin: > I installed cygwin 3.0.7 about 2 weeks ago and everything seems fine. > I start the X server from the command line with startxwin. > > What I'd like to do is to set up a desktop shortcut for gnome-terminal. > I have defined the DISPLAY=":0.0" option in windows, and from mintty I can start gnome-terminal > with no problems. I tried to set up a windows shortcut with this command: > > C:\cygwin64\bin\gnome-terminal.exe --display=":0.0" -- C:\cygwin64\bin\bash --login -i > > I also tried different variations on this, e.g. do not tell it to run bash at all, > run bash, but specify the POSIX path, etc. > > The result is always the same: a window pops up for a fraction of a second and disappears. > > What do I need to do to get the gnome-terminal shortcut working? Like the mintty > (cygwin-terminal) is working. > > Thanks! > > -- 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