Am 19.01.2010 06:52, schrieb David Smiley @MITRE.org: > Greetings folks. > I have been fed-up with the default GUI shell on Cygwin, being used to the > great Terminal that comes with Mac OS X. Some googling around uncovered > that I should try "rxvt". My experience with rxvt is pretty good, after > reading online some basic configuration tips. But unfortunately I've come > across a deal-breaker and I'm not sure exactly what the culprit is. If I > run a java program from rxvt and control-C it (i.e. SIGINT) then it seems to > kill -9 it instead of letting the program catch the signal to terminate. I > found a quickie Java code sample online that anyone can quickly compile and > try for themselves: http://waelchatila.com/2006/01/13/1137143896635.html > save to CtrlC.java then type "javac CtrlC" then "java -cp . CtrlC" and > then hit ctrl-c. It works properly in Cygwin's default GUI shell but not > rxvt. > > I *did* try searching the lists but didn't really find a resolution.
Please install mintty (via Cygwin setup). AFAIK, rxvt is deprecated. -- 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