On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:34:56 -0500, Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu> wrote: >> How do I configure the XWin Server so that it opens xterm correctly? > >This happens because xterm doesn't start a login shell, and PS1 gets unset. >One way around this is to set PS1 in your ~/.bashrc file. For example: > > PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\...@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ '
I added this to my ~/.bashrc and the problem went away. Thanks! >> Also, is there a way I can add a shortcut on my desktop to open a new >> terminal window without having to type 'xterm' in the existing >> terminal window or the system tray icon? > >I use a shortcut with target > >C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/xterm -ls -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 Perfect, with this I don't even need to bother with the system tray icon. However, I do get a small error message when I execute it: > -bash: Files/MiKTeX: No such file or directory > > cr...@craig-laptop ~ > $ I imagine that this has something to do with the way cygwin deals with the PATH variable? Here is the text in my PATH variable as seen from Cygwin: > $ echo $PATH >/cygdrive/c/Users/craig/Programming/scripts:/home/craig/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/MiKTeX >2.7/miktex/bin:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/10.0/DLLShared/:/cygdrive/c/Program >Files/Common Files/Roxio >Shared/DLLShared/:/cygdrive/c/modeltech_6.5c/win32:/cygdrive/c/Users/craig/Software/ant-1.7.1/apache-ant-1.7.1/bin Alternatively , this is what it looks like from DOS cmd: > ECHO %PATH% > C:\Program Files\MiKTeX > 2.7\miktex\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Program > Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\10.0\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files\Common > Files\Roxio > Shared\DLLShared\;C:\modeltech_6.5c\win32;C:\Users\craig\Software\ant-1.7.1\apache-ant-1.7.1\bin Its not a big problem, but I thought I would make you all aware of it. Thanks for your help, Craig -- 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/
