Because I already had a cygwin.bat file, the upgrade from 1.5.x to 1.7.x did
not provide a new one, not even a cygwin.bat.sample (which would have been
nice), so that one could see if there are differences between releases.
As a result of there not being a sample, my current bat file will not
corr
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:48:01PM -0600, Mike Brown wrote:
> As a result of there not being a sample, my current bat file will not
> correctly start my Z-shell. Most of the time double-clicking on the shortcut
> results in the program (CMD) flashing on the screen and going away. When it
> does m
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Mike Brown wrote:
Doing some more digging I found
the following posting (via google):
> Does changing 'bash' to '/bin/bash' make a difference?
Answering my own question: yes.
There was a change in execvp()'s behaviour to no longer look up
an executable in the c
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:13:02AM -0600, Tim McDaniel wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Mike Brown wrote:
>> Doing some more digging I found
>> the following posting (via google):
>>
>>> Does changing 'bash' to '/bin/bash' make a difference?
>>
>>Answering my own question: yes.
>>
>>There
On 12/12/2011 1:31 AM, Mike Brown wrote:
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:48:01PM -0600, Mike Brown wrote:
Suggestions for document improvement:
FAQ addition to show how to modify the cygwin.bat file, or a copied file for
modification, in order to be able to run rxvt to start a better terminal.
This w
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:45:12AM -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
> There is no longer a default BAT file, and the Windows console is no longer
> the default terminal. The default terminal is now mintty. The current
> setup.exe creates desktop and start menu shortcuts to start it. This was
> announce
On 12/12/2011 11:44 AM, Mike Brown wrote:
snipped doc references...
> In other words, no where in the documentation is it stated that mintty is now
> the default startup. It all leans toward cygwin.bat as being the way things
> are started.
>
> So, just what is a user supposed to think when rea
On 12/12/2011 12:44 PM, Mike Brown wrote:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:45:12AM -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
There is no longer a default BAT file, and the Windows console is no longer
the default terminal. The default terminal is now mintty. The current
setup.exe creates desktop and start menu shortc
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 03:28:39PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
> There's nothing to set up. You just click on the start menu shortcut. You
> can then right click in the mintty window and select "Options" if you want
> to change some of the defaults.
In my case that is a no go. That is because, as
On 12/12/2011 03:23 PM, Mike Brown wrote:
> In my case that is a no go. That is because, as mentioned, I told the
> installer not to create the desktop shortcut or the start menu option, as I
> already had them. So, the start menu currently points to the BAT file.
Hmm, it seems that my messages
On 2011-12-12, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
> On 12/12/2011 03:23 PM, Mike Brown wrote:
> > In my case that is a no go. That is because, as mentioned, I told the
> > installer not to create the desktop shortcut or the start menu option, as I
> > already had them. So, the start menu currently points to the
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 04:11:48PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote:
> General
> [Name:] Cygwin Terminal
> Shortcut
> Target: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -
> Start in: [empty]
> Shortcut key: None
> Run: Normal window
> [Icon:] C
[Sorry, I again accidentally replied to the OP instead of to the list.]
On 12/12/2011 8:37 PM, Mike Brown wrote:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 04:11:48PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote:
General
[Name:] Cygwin Terminal
Shortcut
Target: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Termina
On 12/12/2011 07:37 PM, Mike Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 04:11:48PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote:
>> General
>> [Name:] Cygwin Terminal
>> Shortcut
>> Target: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -
>> Start in: [empty]
>> Shortcut key: Non
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:07:23PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
> [Sorry, I again accidentally replied to the OP instead of to the list.]
Easy to do the way this mail list is set up.
> Are you sure you didn't forget the `-' at the end of the target? That's
> what tells mintty to start your shell as
On Dec 12 10:45, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 12/12/2011 1:31 AM, Mike Brown wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:48:01PM -0600, Mike Brown wrote:
> >Suggestions for document improvement:
> >
> >FAQ addition to show how to modify the cygwin.bat file, or a copied file for
> >modification, in order to be ab
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