Hi, since I plan to distribute LyX in my universitiy's department I have to consider a very inhomogenous computer environment, ranging from PCs with network, without, from Win9x to XP, with homedirs on servers, to what-ever-you-want.
I want to set $HOME to the value stored in \HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\AppData my /etc/profile looks this way: snipp---------------- PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH" USER="`id -un`" # Set up USER's home directory # if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then # HOME="/home/$USER" # fi APPDATA=`regtool get "\HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\AppData"` FOO=`cygpath -ws "$APPDATA"` HOME=`cygpath -u "$FOO"` if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then mkdir -p "$HOME" fi export HOME USER for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do if [ -f $i ]; then . $i fi done export MAKE_MODE=unix export PS1='\[\033]0;\w\007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] $ ' cd "$HOME" snapp---------------- starting bash (cygwin.bat) with user Admin on SCHIEBELER1 cygwin sets $HOME correctly to /cygdrive/f/DOKUME~1/ADMIN~1.SCH/ANWEND~1 To tart LyX I used the provided startlyx.bat snipp---------------- @echo off SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 SET CYGWIN_ROOT=E:\Programme\office\cygwin SET PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH% if not exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 goto CLEANUP-FINISH attrib -s %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 del %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 :CLEANUP-FINISH if exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix rmdir %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix if "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" goto USE-B-SWITCH echo startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows 95/98/Me start XWin run xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash run twm goto END :USE-B-SWITCH echo startlyx.bat - Starting LyX on Windows NT/2000 start XWin -screen 0 1250 940 run twm run lyxwin32.exe -geometry 1250x900+0+0 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 :END run xsetroot -solid aquamarine4 snapp---------------- if I do so unfortunately nothing appears except an empty anquamarine-colored Cygwin/Xfree86 rl window. if I click and start an xterm, HOME is set to /home/Admin (which doesn't exist) and ps shows a cygpath process. After killing that process there is one bash process more than before and another cygpath process running - killing that LyX starts but without a proper set $HOME. Can enyone point me to my mistake? regards Stefan -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage!