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Re: Clean install, incomplete setup - no home dir, broken PATH
- From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
- To: Cygwin-L <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 12:46:50 -0600
- Subject: Re: Clean install, incomplete setup - no home dir, broken PATH
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On 5/14/2013 11:47, Daniel Davis wrote:
Invoking mintty with "/bin/bash -l" is a
perfect workaround so far. Sometime later I'll look for the mintty
source code and try and figure out why mintty isn't running "bash -l"
by default.
mintty *doesn't* run "bash -l" by default. The default shortcut to
mintty created by setup.exe *asks* mintty to do that by passing mintty
the '-' parameter.
Did you create your own mintty shortcut? If so, the Target line in the
shortcut properties should read:
C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -
(Assuming Cygwin is in c:\cygwin.)
If you're still using the default shortcut, check that its Target line
is correct. If it just says "C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe" you'll get the
exact effect you've reported.
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