From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 109971 invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2016 15:26:51 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 109963 invoked by uid 89); 23 Apr 2016 15:26:50 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:649, clicking, dell X-HELO: mail.cs.Dartmouth.EDU Received: from mail.cs.dartmouth.edu (HELO mail.cs.Dartmouth.EDU) (129.170.212.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 23 Apr 2016 15:26:50 +0000 Received: from coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu [129.170.213.217]) by mail.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id u3NFQkOc012022 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2016 11:26:46 -0400 Received: from coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id u3NFQkwg011431 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2016 11:26:46 -0400 Received: (from doug@localhost) by coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id u3NFQkLB011430 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sat, 23 Apr 2016 11:26:46 -0400 From: Doug McIlroy Message-Id: <201604231526.u3NFQkLB011430@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 17:17:00 -0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: can't open cygwin from shortcut User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00577.txt.bz2 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 -- 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