start xterm automatically

[Csaba Raduly]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:47 AM, andreaphus <andrealphus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to set it so that when I run cygwin it automatically launches an
> xterm shell but Im having problems.
>
(snip)
>
> Ideally I want to run cygwin, have it automatically open a login xterm
> shell, and then auto close the cygwin shell.
>

Doesn't your startxwin.bat start an xterm after the X server? I always
had to comment that out (I run startxwin at startup).

Instead of xterm, you may consider using rxvt (which has the advantage
of working with or without X). I don't use cygwin.bat anymore; just a
shortcut with

rxvt <some other options> -e bash --login

Hope this helps.
Csaba
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