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Re: startxwin invoking bash
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:34:40 -0400
- Subject: Re: startxwin invoking bash
- References: <3F4D042F.809@hotmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Jack,
I can't help here. I would appreciate if others would chime in with
some insight here.
It might be a good idea... or it might not. I inherited the command
lines in both of these scripts, so I can't always say that something
must or most not be done.
It would probably be sufficient in this case to show an example command
line for starting xterm with another shell that is used on a Linux or
*BSD distribution... if they use the -i and -l, then we probably should
to. If they don't, we might need to make sure that there are no
drawbacks that would make this is a bad idea.
Harold
Jack Tanner wrote:
So startxwin.bat (and startxwin.sh) starts an xterm and invokes bash for
that xterm:
xterm -e /usr/bin/bash
Is there any reason not to invoke bash as an interactive, login shell in
this case, i.e., -i -l?
-JT