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RE: Cygwin-xfree installation problems
- To: "'Uwe Menzel'" <uwe dot menzel at genpat dot uu dot se>, "'cygwin mailing list'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Cygwin-xfree installation problems
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 07:56:35 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Menzel [mailto:uwe.menzel@genpat.uu.se]
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 5:18 AM
> To: cygwin mailing list
> Subject: Re: Cygwin-xfree installation problems
>
> Hi,
>
>
> the problem was that I tried to connect to the server
> as a user who has the tcsh declared as the default shell in
> /etc/passwd
> When I changed the default shell to sh, logging in from PC to server
> was succesful.
> Is it possible to configure xfree86 to allow the tcsh as
> default shell ??
>
>
Xfree86 itself does not Open a shell on your screen.
For installation Xinstall.sh uses sh shell and it cannot be changed because
we do not want to alter the default installation scripts from Xfree86 Inc.
These scripts are used on multiple platforms therefore it will not be good
idea to change shell in those scripts.
For xterm, rxvt and xmterm etc you can use tcsh or whatever shell you
like... just edit the startup scripts per your choice.
Suhaib
> Thanks, Uwe