Hi I'm using almost the default startxwin.bat with the following:
start XWin -emulate3buttons run xterm -ls -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash Funnily enough, the xterm I get did NOT run bash as a login shell (the -ls option), as my ~/.bash_profile hasn't been read (for instance, the path is not complete). When I delete the -e stuff, i.e. use run xterm -ls -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black everything is alright. (This only works because bash is the default shell on cygwin). In fact, the same problem occurs when running xterm from within an existing xterm/bash session. Typing xterm -ls -e /usr/bin/bash does not read the profile, while xterm -ls does. So, I suspect an xterm problem. I'm using NT 4.0 sp6a and a cygwin setup of 30th of August (i.e. before the 64 bit stuff). Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans <at> imperial.ac.uk) Hammersmith Imanet Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address: http://www.hammersmithimanet.com/~kris