On 18 February 2010 22:02, Mike Ayers wrote:
> No, no, .bashrc is off the suspect list. What's in ~/.bash_profile?
Ah! Yes, this is where the problem was. This is what I found in my
.bash_profile:
> if [ -e /etc/bash.bashrc ] ; then
> source /etc/bash.bashrc
> fi
> if [ -e "${HOME}/.ba
> From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
> ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Craig Moore
> I added the 'set -x' to the first line of my .bashrc file and then ran
> '. .bashrc' and this is the output
>
> > ++ set -x
> > ++ unset TMP
> > ++ unset TEMP
> > ++ alias 'df=df -h'
> > +
On 18 February 2010 21:22, Mike Ayers wrote:
> My wild guess is that you have a typo in .bashrc which prevents all
> the startup happening. in your system tray launched window, make sure you
> are in your home directory, then run '. .bashrc' (note that first period!)
> and see if there
> From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
> ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Craig Moore
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:14 AM
> When I open a new xterm window using the XWin Server icon in the system
> tray:
>
> > (right click on icon)->Applications->xterm
>
> it opens xte
On 18 February 2010 17:55, Eliot Moss wrote:
> You have spaces in your PATH but probably did not quote it
> properly in your scripts when you used it ...
No, thats not it. It works fine when I start xterm normally (either by
starting XWin Server or selecting it from the system tray icon). Its
onl
On 2/18/2010 11:28 AM, Craig Moore wrote:
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:34:56 -0500, Ken Brown 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
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:34:56 -0500, Ken Brown 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\
On 2/18/2010 7:13 AM, Craig Moore wrote:
When I open a new xterm window using the XWin Server icon in the system tray:
(right click on icon)->Applications->xterm
it opens xterm, but the command prompt is not formatted correctly and
the window title is 'xterm' instaed of the current directory.
Hi,
When I open a new xterm window using the XWin Server icon in the system tray:
> (right click on icon)->Applications->xterm
it opens xterm, but the command prompt is not formatted correctly and
the window title is 'xterm' instaed of the current directory.
The command prompt looks like:
> ba
