Rance Hall wrote: > 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
It doesn't create an icon on the desktop, but it should create a mintty entry in the All Programs/Cygwin folder in the start menu. Just copy it to the desktop if you prefer having it there. > likely because mintty did > not respect my choice of ALL USERS or "just me" in setup.exe Actually there is code for this case in the mintty postinstall script. It works for me, but I don't think it gets an awful lot of use, so there might well be circumstances where it fails. > Thanks Jeremy, apparently the problem is the "-" at the end of the > mintty call. Thats the beast that tells mintty to read the > environment files. Not quite. It tells mintty to invoke the shell, usually bash, as a so-called login shell. In that case, bash reads different startup files compared to when it's invoked as non-login shell. See the bash manual for details. Andy -- 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
