Have you tried bbwin32? it is a Blackbox windows shell replacement. I've found it much better that cygwin + blackbox. I still use the rxvt for a terminal window when I need *nix stuff but still have the raw windows apps when needed without the over-head and RAM drain.
http://www.desktopian.org/bb/ -Tig On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:30:03 -0500 Rudy Taraschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm (probably) in the minority here, but I use Blackbox 0.65 in > a Cygwin environment [1]. It's Grrrrrrrrrrreat! > > When I try to load any style that has a background like > "bsetbg -f ~/.blackbox/backgrounds/a.jpg", I get a message > "~/.blackbox/backgrounds/a.jpg does not exist". > > If set the -x flag in the bsetbg script to see what's happening, > I see that the [ -f "$file" ] test at line 235 does *not* expand > the ~ to /home/rudy, which is why the test fails. > > If, however, I run "bsetbg -f ~/.blackbox/backgrounds/a.jpg" from > the command prompt (bash), the background sets just fine. > > I also tried changing the "/bin/sh" to "/bin/bash" in bsetbg and > unquoting the "$file" to get tilde expansion, but it still doesn't > work. > > Any ideas before I start hacking around the "bexec()" subroutine? > > Cheers! > > rudy > > [1] clean compile of an unmodified source tree - congratulations! > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html > Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
