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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: applying command shell properties to cygwin.bat
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:11:17 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of james pentland
> Sent: 13 April 2004 17:05

> when i run the cygwin bash shell on system startup
> from the startup entry in the registry the
> foreground/background color and other properties are
> not applied to the command shell in which bash runs.

> however, these properties are associated with the
> shortcut, not with the batch file which runs bash.

  Indeed; that's how windoze manages these settings, on a per-shortcut basis
rather than on a per-target basis.  I suspect there may be hidden .pif files
involved here.....

> as a consequence, when invoking bash by running the
> batch file, which is named cygwin.bat and is in a path
> something like n:\cygwin\cygwin.bat, the properties
> are not applied and one ends up with a generic command
> shell window - white text on black background, default
> layout, no icon.

  'fraid so.  That's a .bat file, not a shortcut, and so has no console
window properties associated with it.
 
> how can one associate the properties with the batch
> file cygwin.bat such that they stay with the command
> shell?

  You can't do, but instead of starting the batch file from your registry
startup entry, you could create a new shortcut to the batch file and put the
path of that shortcut in the registry instead.  Then you could set whatever
properties you wanted in the shortcut.

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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