Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > > It's been a while since I've had to look at chere. Bottom line - there > > haven't been any previous reports of failures on Vista 64 bit (and I > > don't have a 64-bit system available to me). > > How many of these?: > > * Vista, 64 bit > * Root not at c:\Cygwin > * Mintty is terminal > * Bash is shell > * Not in any way using 'Cygin.bat' as the "invoker"
Err, none? :) There might be problems, but this is the first report I've seen. > > Can you provide the output of `chere -r`, and the chere command you've > > run most recently. That'll allow me to diagnose what it's tried to do. > > Attached! > > Since, I had uninstalled 'chere', I reinstalled it, Bash run as > Administrator: > > $ chere -i -a -n -e "Mintty Bash" -t mintty -o \ > "--icon=c:\_0\cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll,10 -" So chere has managed to set the keys, and read them back fine. What happens when you run the following command in cmd (all one line)? C:\_0\bin\mintty.exe --icon=c:\_0\cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll,10 - -e /bin/xhere /bin/bash.exe "c:\Program Files" > > Also, do you know where the " Shell defaulting to bash defined for lr" > > is coming from? > > The '-' at the end of the argument to '-o' tells 'mintty' to use > the login shell. which for 'lr' is 'bash'. Since you seem to be > implying that the quote is not coming from 'chere', I infer that > somehow it's coming from 'mintty'? Perhaps, 'bash'? No, that's me forgetting about a chere feature. If you don't specify a shell it looks in passwd. > Note that once again, the Windows menu item comes up: > "cygwin_bash". > > If you're out of ideas, might you give me some clues to look for > bad keys in the registry? Check HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Shell\cygwin_bash. It's value should be the context menu item text, "Mintty Bash" It should have one subkey, command, whose value is the command to run "c:\_0\bin\mintty ...". I'm at a loss - googling indicates the keys should work on Vista. In particular the following page has comments listing the keys we use. <http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-command-prompt-here-in-windows-vista/> Do any of the other suggestions in the comments bring up the command prompt for you? Dave. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
