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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:00:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: Window shortcut to launch a Mintty login bash on a given 	directory
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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On 31 July 2010 14:45, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote:
> The last problem is that the window title, for the "My documents/foobar"
> directory becomes:
> /cygdrive/d/Documents and settings/User_name/My documents/foobar
> which iconifies to "/cygdrive/d/Docu...", the latter indication being
> the same for all directories.
>
> I tried:
> C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -t foobar -e /bin/env CHERE_INVOKING=1
> /bin/bash --login
>
> to get the "foobar" window title, but at the end the complete above
> title comes back again.

The window title is changed to the working directory as part of the
shell prompt, i.e. the PS1 variable, which is set in /etc/profile.
It's the initial part of it that does it:

\[\e]0;\w\a\]

So you could change PS1 to something more to your liking in ~/.bash_profile.

Alternatively, you could mount (part of) the "D:/Documents and
settings/User_name/My documents/foobar" path to a shorter POSIX path
in /etc/fstab or /etc/fstab.d/$USER. See
http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table for
details.

You might also want to consider making it your official home
directory, in which case it would be abbreviated to a tilde in the
title.

(This isn't mintty-specific of course.)

Andy

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