On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:50 PM, LMH wrote: > > If you double click on the Cygwin icon on the desktop, it starts a bash > shell. If you click on the small Cygwin icon, upper left on the top window > bar, you can select properties. This gives you a window to modify properties > of the bash shell window such as the size, font color, font size, etc. When > you close after your modifications, there was always an option to apply the > changes to the current window only, or to modify the shortcut that started > the window. > > I have always done this as soon as I installed cygwin.
You know, I used to do this as well until I found out about mintty, which is a much nicer terminal than the "DOS prompt". Using mintty would allow you to side-step the problem of not being able to modify the command prompt. For one thing, mintty can be resized :) Csaba -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers. Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. "Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. " -- Linus Torvalds "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds -- 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