From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17964 invoked by alias); 19 Aug 2011 18:32:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 17953 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Aug 2011 18:32:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm37-vm5.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (HELO nm37-vm5.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com) (72.30.238.205) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:31:52 +0000 Received: from [98.139.215.142] by nm37.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Aug 2011 18:31:51 -0000 Received: from [98.139.212.236] by tm13.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Aug 2011 18:31:51 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1045.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Aug 2011 18:31:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 91051 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2011 18:31:51 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: 6hp7xDCswBAZFPiwXTBlX1ARAAZrOcR.nQ-- Received: from [192.168.10.168] (lmh_users-groups@71.232.178.51 with plain) by smtp112.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Aug 2011 11:31:50 -0700 PDT Message-ID: <4E4EAC13.2080005@molconn.com> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:32:00 -0000 From: LMH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110813 Firefox/6.0 SeaMonkey/2.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut References: <4E4C71F0.1010509@molconn.com> <4E4E9439.20908@molconn.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2011-08/txt/msg00371.txt.bz2 I've had no issue with re-sizing the bash window in the past and having those changes saved to the shortcut, even on win7 ent, so I am concerned about the health of the install. The desktop icon points to Cygwin.bat, but that doesn't have anything in it about the bash shell. Can someone point me to the ini file where the specs of the bash window would be recorded? I can check that file on another machine and see if it exists on the suspect install and see if I can edit it. That may give a clue as to what is amiss. I don't know anything about mintty and have always used bash. Can I run all of my bash commands, or would I be learning a new shell? LMH Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:50 PM, LMH wrote: >> >> If you double click on the Cygwin icon on the desktop, it starts a bash >> shell. If you click on the small Cygwin icon, upper left on the top window >> bar, you can select properties. This gives you a window to modify properties >> of the bash shell window such as the size, font color, font size, etc. When >> you close after your modifications, there was always an option to apply the >> changes to the current window only, or to modify the shortcut that started >> the window. >> >> I have always done this as soon as I installed cygwin. > > You know, I used to do this as well until I found out about mintty, > which is a much nicer terminal than the "DOS prompt". Using mintty > would allow you to side-step the problem of not being able to modify > the command prompt. For one thing, mintty can be resized :) > > Csaba -- 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