On 3/31/2010 12:13 PM, Rance Hall wrote: > Today I tried to install cygwin on a work machine that I do not have > permission to admin. > > I'm a Math Prof here so I just get to use the machine on my desk. > > on my laptop I am the admin so I installed cygwin for all users. No > biggie, only user is me. > > I use mintty on the advice of some folks on this list and I like it. > When I installed cygwin 1.7.2 on my work box I naturally installed mintty > > I had to check the box on setup that said I was installing for just me > so that setup wouldnt try to install shortcuts in ALL USERS which it > does not have the right to do. > > mintty did not self-setup correctly under this scenario. > > I did not get a mintty icon on my desktop likely because mintty did > not respect my choice of ALL USERS or "just me" in setup.exe > > when I tried to launch mintty from the bin directory it did launch but > it did not read the config files. > > the prompt is litterally the "bash" prompt with the version number > instead of the hostname. > > and the path isnt set so it cant find any of the commands including > the basic ones like ls, grep, sed, etc. > > What do I need to do in order to get mintty to behave correctly? > > the cygwin termimal screen works correctly, ls returns the list, and > the prompt is the hostname. > > I uninstalled mintty and reinstalled it with no changes, so there is > something else going on, but I dont know what it is, and because I > dont have admin privs on this machine, there is likely no way to > troubleshoot it.
While waiting for a fix, create your own shortcut for Mintty. Assuming C:\cygwin is where you installed Cygwin, set the Target: field to "C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -" without the quotes and the Start in: field to C:\cygwin\bin. Adjust as necessary to point to wherever you actually installed Cygwin. -Jeremy -- 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
