X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BARRACUDA_BRBL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,TVD_SPACED_SUBJECT_WORD3 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: MinTTY Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:24:34 +0100 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <495917BA.1090401@gmail.com> <6910a60812291430i6e2c394agcedab557bbf6f673@mail.gmail.com> <4959B7F7.9020400@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <495A1811.3030209@gmail.com> <495A2BF2.7040409@elite-systems.org> <495A90E4.6020706@elite-systems.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.71.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com * Robert Pendell (Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:21:40 -0500)> > Robert Pendell wrote: > > It runs on 1.7 but does not appear to execute the shell as a login one. > > I use bash and .bash_profile never gets executed when using MinTTY > > directly. I can help you debug it if you wish. > > I stand corrected here. I checked some more. The batch script (which I > forgot that I used the cygwin default one) runs bash automatically with > '--login -i' appended to it. I also found that you can run a command > when mintty runs as the shell. I modified cygwin.bat to execute mintty. > Looks like mintty doesn't detach completely on it's own so I appended > 'start' to the beginning to it. The program will continue to run but > the black box will disappear. If start doesn't work then use 'cygstart' > instead as that one is supplied by cygwin. Basically the last line of > cygwin.bat was changed to show as... > > start mintty bash --login -i If you don't want a Windows console terminal then running or modifying the Cygwin batch file is completely pointless. Simply create a shortcut as described in the Readme: "Create a shortcut to mintty.exe with the working directory set to the Cygwin bin directory. The create_shortcut.js script will do this for you.". Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/