The nonworking "Cygwin64 Terminal" shortcut is indeed a bug in CYGWIN_NT-10.0 version 2.4.1(0.293/5/3). Adding .exe to the pathname for mintty fixes it. Thanks to Brian Inglis for telling me how to do that.
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