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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:58:04 +0000
To: Eliot Moss via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin/X as Shell replacement?
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On Wed, 19 Jun 2024, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote:

> On 6/19/2024 2:06 PM, Jens Staal via Cygwin wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I recently read the Wikipedia article on alternative shells in Windows.
> > 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windows
> > 
> > And it got me wondering: can you start a DE or WM running under Cygwin/X as
> > an alternative Windows shell?
> 
> If WM mean window manager, then yes.  I use bash as my shell all the time.
> Not sure what you mean by DE ...

Probably Desktop Environment,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment

Following 
https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2018/10/04/simple-way-to-launch-cygwin-programs-on-windows-start-up/

I was happy to find I could bypass the desktop and open mintty windows 
at start up with a batch script,

C:\cygwin64\bin\run.exe -p bin --quote /usr/bin/bash -l -c "cd; exec 
/usr/bin/mintty bash -i -c \"tt Mo qb dot mastodon Pr Po E\""

where 'tt' is my bash function opening minty bash windows, and its 
arguments are other bash functions starting 'screen' sessions.

With so may invocations of bash and mintty, am I going round 
in circles to avoid the desktop this way?

> Still, CMD and PowerShell have their uses sometimes, and WSL is also useful
> in addition to Cygwin and virtual machines such as Hyper-V or VirtualBox.
> 
> Best - Eliot Moss
> 
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