Prompt at bottom of terminal

Hi there, This would seem a somewhat arbitrary question but it is driving me crazy. The prompt on my terminal starts from the bottom of the terminal. Could anyone tell me how I get it to start from the top left hand corner like "normal"? The Target of the icon which I use to start cygwin with is:

Re: Deafult to bash so $chere will work (possibly?)

On 24/08/2014 11:02, Michelle Pace wrote: HOORAY! Thanks Andrey, this command worked for me: $ chere -i -t mintty -s bash I'm glad you got it to work. chere is attempting to use the shell defined in your passwd (as retrieved by getent). The shell being returned is '/bin/sh'. It looks like

Re: Deafult to bash so $chere will work (possibly?)

HOORAY! Thanks Andrey, this command worked for me: $ chere -i -t mintty -s bash DAYS of trying to figure this out. Thank-you! Michelle PS No problems about the english - it's better than my Russian :) On 24 August 2014 09:36, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Michelle Pace! > >> I would like C

Re: top and free fail as of 21 Aug

On Aug 23 08:11, Lester Ingber wrote: > As of 21 Aug 2014, under cygwin, top and free return a blank line. I uploaded the 64 bit tar file for 32 bit as well, accidentally. I fixed that now by uploading a 32 bit 3.2.8-4. HTH, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regar

Re: Deafult to bash so $chere will work (possibly?)

Greetings, Michelle Pace! > I would like Cygwin in the context menu of my Windows 7 machine (I > have admin rights). > I'm not sure really why the chere command is not working It works as long as you get the context menu entry after it's invocation. > since I've just read "sh is actually really