On Jun 1 19:30, Andy Koppe wrote: > 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.
Just set the shortcut's "Run:" setting to minimized and there's no flashing window anymore. Setup.exe could do that for you. > 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. Exactly. > > - 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. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
