From: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: can't open cygwin from shortcut
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 17:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201604231526.u3NFQkLB011430@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
On a Microsoft Surface running CYGWIN_NT-10.0 version 2.4.1(0.293/5/3)
I cannot start Cygwin from the desktop shortcut. It fails to find
mintty. On failure, it proffers a browsing window focused on /bin.
Clicking on mintty in that window does not work. I can start
Cygwin via a Windows "run" request, however.
On a Dell desktop machine running CYGWIN_NT-6.3 version 1.7.34(0.285/5/3)
where the shortcut works, I see that the pathname in the shortcut
ends in mintty.exe. The .exe extension is missing in the 2.4.1
shortcut. Could this be the cause? If so, is there a convenient
way to edit a shortcut?
Doug McIlroy
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next reply other threads:[~2016-04-23 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-23 17:17 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2016-04-24 5:48 ` John Ruckstuhl
2016-04-24 6:32 ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-24 8:30 ` Brian Inglis
2016-04-25 17:46 Doug McIlroy
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