On 9 July 2010 08:51, philippe wrote: >>> For your -e option, simply run mintty with a single "-" as the only >>> option, i.e. "mintty -". That will tell mintty to run an interactive >>> login shell for your user as specified in /etc/passwd. > > if i add in the Cygwin.bat the line > > mintty -t myminty - > > mintty is launched with the good configuration at startup but there is > an additional cmd window which doesn't close after the mintty is > launched (but i can close it mnually).
If you invoke it from there, you'll need to precede it with the 'start' command: start mintty -t myminty - The cmd window will still flash up briefly though, which you can avoid by invoking mintty from a shortcut. >> Good advice. Also, it's easiest just to invoke mintty from the start >> menu shortcut in the Cygwin folder that's created when mintty is >> installed. That already has that '-' argument. > > just a remark : after the standard cygwin installation I've a single > short cut to Cygwin.bat in the start menu cygwin folder nothing else ...??? The shortcut should have been created if you installed mintty by selecting it in Cygwin setup.exe. 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