rxvt is so much more better than the default cygwin terminal. You will thank me once you switch to using rxvt. To get rxvt working without starting an X Server, just create a shortcut using the following -
C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fg green -bg black -fn "Lucida Console-14" -e bash --login -i
This is assuming that cygwin is installed at c:\cygwin. You will get a foreground of green on a black background. The font used is “Lucida Console-14″.
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Have a look at mintty as well, which is a Unicode-capable Cygwin terminal with a native Windows user interface, including a graphical options dialog. http://mintty.googlecode.com
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srini Reply:
March 23rd, 2010 at 8:40 am
mintty looks really good.. When did this become part of cygwin? I reinstalled cygwin as I had a very old copy. It has changed a lot since I last updated. My copy was a couple of years old.
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Yep, there certainly have been plenty of changes with the recently released Cygwin version 1.7, for example support for different character sets, with UTF-8 as the default. Mintty has been in the distro for a bit more than a year now.
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