{"id":46,"date":"2005-01-17T17:59:32","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T22:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/17\/cygwin-rxvt\/"},"modified":"2006-05-24T11:48:52","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T18:48:52","slug":"cygwin-rxvt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/17\/cygwin-rxvt\/","title":{"rendered":"Cygwin + Rxvt"},"content":{"rendered":"

This works great. Stolen from here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Cygwin + Rxvt<\/p>\n

I’ve been playing around with Cygwin since I’m forced to run WinXP on my work laptop. Cygwin’s great, I’ve used it on and off since when it was GNU-Win32 by Cygnus, but there’s a lot of improvements to it in the last year or two.<\/p>\n

One of the things that’s irritated me is that the default console uses the cmd.exe shell as a base – makes it hard to copy + paste with the mouse, among other things. After some effort, I found the right combination of tweaks to get Rxvt working as a decent console in Cygwin.<\/p>\n

[You’ll of course have to install Rxvt from your favorite Cygwin mirror. – Lee]<\/p>\n

Step 1: Edit ~\/.Xdefaults – the settings below create an 80×80 terminal window with a deep-blue-black background and yellow-white text (looks nice, easy on the eyes) and assign VIM-style color codes:<\/p>\n

(see comment 6. A change might be needed to this code. I haven’t tested it yet but you might need it. Tell me if it works for you please)<\/p>\n

! ~\/.Xdefaults - X default resource settings
\nRxvt*geometry: 80x80
\nRxvt*background: #000020
\nRxvt*foreground: #ffffbf
\n!Rxvt*borderColor: Blue
\n!Rxvt*scrollColor: Blue
\n!Rxvt*troughColor: Gray
\nRxvt*scrollBar: True
\nRxvt*scrollBar_right: True
\nRxvt*font: Lucida Console-12
\nRxvt*SaveLines: 2000
\nRxvt*loginShell: True
\n! VIM-like colors
\nRxvt*color0: #000000
\nRxvt*color1: #FFFFFF
\nRxvt*color2: #00A800
\nRxvt*color3: #FFFF00
\nRxvt*color4: #0000A8
\nRxvt*color5: #A800A8
\nRxvt*color6: #00A8A8
\nRxvt*color7: #D8D8D8
\nRxvt*color8: #000000
\nRxvt*color9: #FFFFFF
\nRxvt*color10: #00A800
\nRxvt*color11: #FFFF00
\nRxvt*color12: #0000A8
\nRxvt*color13: #A800A8
\nRxvt*color14: #00A8A8
\nRxvt*color15: #D8D8D8
\n! eof
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Step 2: Modify your c:cygwincygwin.bat to invoke your shiny new Rxvt instead of cmd.exe:<\/p>\n

@echo off
\nC:
\nchdir C:cygwinbin
\nset EDITOR=vi
\nset VISUAL=vi
\nset CYGWIN=codepage:oem tty binmode title
\nrxvt -e bash --login -i<\/code><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This works great. Stolen from here. Cygwin + Rxvt I’ve been playing around with Cygwin since I’m forced to run WinXP on my work laptop. Cygwin’s great, I’ve used it on and off since when it was GNU-Win32 by Cygnus, but there’s a lot of improvements to it in the last year or two. One […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-other-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}