On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Chris Green wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:01:06AM -0800, Matthew L. Mandalek wrote: > > How do I use cygwin to start a X console on my XP machine like I get on > > the Rad Hat Fedora console? > > > Do you just mean a terminal window or do you mean an X desktop? > > To me 'console' means a text mode terminal, in that case all you need > to do is run the cygwin object that should be on your desktop and you > have something like wghat you're after. > > If you want a 'proper' Unix/Linux terminal then you need rxvt which > you may or may not have downloaded with cygwin.
or xterm, of course. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
