On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:20:12 +0100, Andy Koppe <andy.ko...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have started cygwin-1.7 setup to update to latest cygwin dll and now >> when >> I start mintty, >> seems are very weird. >> My terminal looks like a mix between a windows terminal and mintty, for >> instance I have the following >> text in black and white : >> >> Microsoft Windows XP [version 5.1.2600] >> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. >> >> C:\cygwin-1.7\bin> >> >> and the window title is -cmd while I think it used to be ~. Colors have >> disappeared. > > Any chance you've got a Windows environment variable called SHELL > that's set to cmd.exe? Try this to check: echo %SHELL% > > MinTTY 0.4 looks in that variable for a command to execute, like rxvt > and xterm do. > > To override it, change your shortcut to this: > > Target : C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\mintty.exe /bin/bash -l >
Thanks I had the $SHELL set to cmd.exe. Now it works fine. -- 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/
