* Robert Pendell (Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:21:40 -0500)> > Robert Pendell wrote: > > It runs on 1.7 but does not appear to execute the shell as a login one. > > I use bash and .bash_profile never gets executed when using MinTTY > > directly. I can help you debug it if you wish. > > I stand corrected here. I checked some more. The batch script (which I > forgot that I used the cygwin default one) runs bash automatically with > '--login -i' appended to it. I also found that you can run a command > when mintty runs as the shell. I modified cygwin.bat to execute mintty. > Looks like mintty doesn't detach completely on it's own so I appended > 'start' to the beginning to it. The program will continue to run but > the black box will disappear. If start doesn't work then use 'cygstart' > instead as that one is supplied by cygwin. Basically the last line of > cygwin.bat was changed to show as... > > start mintty bash --login -i
If you don't want a Windows console terminal then running or modifying the Cygwin batch file is completely pointless. Simply create a shortcut as described in the Readme: "Create a shortcut to mintty.exe with the working directory set to the Cygwin bin directory. The create_shortcut.js script will do this for you.". Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
