On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Ola Strömfors wrote: > After updating from 291-1 to 301-1 xterm starts /bin/sh instead of > my shell specified in /etc/passwd or in the SHELL environment variable.
I saw the same thing, but only on my home computer running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, not on my work laptop running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit. I start Xwin this way (i.e. same as Cygwin-X group in Start menu): C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe I don't know why SHELL defined as /bin/sh by default (my entry in the /etc/passwd file invokes bash). I could not find a way to change SHELL before XWin starts. One way I fixed it was to launch xterm from .XWinrc like this: "xterm" EXEC "xterm -e /bin/bash" instead of this: "xterm" EXEC "xterm -ls" -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/