From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31057 invoked by alias); 31 Dec 2008 05:43:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 31050 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Dec 2008 05:43:49 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-96-233-71-199.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (96.233.71.199) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:43:14 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9805613C028 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:43:04 -0500 (EST) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 936BA2B35E; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:43:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:43:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MinTTY Message-ID: <20081231054304.GB17754@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <495917BA.1090401@gmail.com> <0E77A4429F494644A9C7CB6F6F3D2125@DFW5RB41> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A211B41DD8@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <20081230165106.GA5230@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <495AB264.8020800@gmail.com> <20081231010535.GA14257@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <495AF66C.4000608@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <495AF66C.4000608@etr-usa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-12/txt/msg00688.txt.bz2 On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:34:52PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I think the only reason to use cygwin.bat is to set the cygwin >> environment variable before bash starts. There's no way to do that >> with a shortcut is there? > > In this case, it could be one of MinTTY's settings, because it can set up > the environment before calling bash. > > For that matter, MinTTY could also provide GUI access to bash command line > flags, a way to change the login shell by modifying /etc/passwd, etc. It would have to do that since the CYGWIN environment settings have to be settable by the user. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/