On 1 June 2010 09:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > What if Cygwin.bat just contains `start mintty.exe -' rather > than `bash --login -i'? > > Advantages: > > - Not much of a change in setup.
Drawback: you get a console flashing up for the .bat file. I find that really annoying, so I think it would need to be a direct shortcut. > - Still allows to set environment variables before starting the first > Cygwin process. You can set variables on the mintty command line using /bin/env, e.g.: mintty /bin/env DISPLAY=:0 /bin/ssh -X server But of course that doesn't take effect before the first Cygwin process. > - Using the dash allows the user to use the Cygwin shotcut to start > his/her login shell as noted in /etc/passwd without having to change > /Cygwin.bat. Good point. Andy
