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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:31:47 -0400
From: LMH <lmh_users-groups@molconn.com>
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Subject: Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut
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I've had no issue with re-sizing the bash window in the past and having 
those changes saved to the shortcut, even on win7 ent, so I am concerned 
about the health of the install. The desktop icon points to Cygwin.bat, 
but that doesn't have anything in it about the bash shell. Can someone 
point me to the ini file where the specs of the bash window would be 
recorded? I can check that file on another machine and see if it exists 
on the suspect install and see if I can edit it. That may give a clue as 
to what is amiss.

I don't know anything about mintty and have always used bash. Can I run 
all of my bash commands, or would I be learning a new shell?

LMH


Csaba Raduly wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:50 PM, LMH  wrote:
>>
>> If you double click on the Cygwin icon on the desktop, it starts a bash
>> shell. If you click on the small Cygwin icon, upper left on the top window
>> bar, you can select properties. This gives you a window to modify properties
>> of the bash shell window such as the size, font color, font size, etc. When
>> you close after your modifications, there was always an option to apply the
>> changes to the current window only, or to modify the shortcut that started
>> the window.
>>
>> I have always done this as soon as I installed cygwin.
>
> You know, I used to do this as well until I found out about mintty,
> which is a much nicer terminal than the "DOS prompt". Using mintty
> would allow you to side-step the problem of not being able to modify
> the command prompt. For one thing, mintty can be resized :)
>
> Csaba

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