From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7901 invoked by alias); 12 Dec 2011 20:28:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 7892 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Dec 2011 20:28:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL,TW_RX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu (HELO authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) (128.253.83.141) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:28:40 +0000 Received: from [128.84.234.240] (dhcp240.math.cornell.edu [128.84.234.240]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id pBCKSdf8000609 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:28:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4EE663F7.4060004@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:28:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Latest cygwin.bat - need one References: <20111212054801.GD4028@mrvideo.vidiot.com> <20111212063131.GE4028@mrvideo.vidiot.com> <4EE62188.5050000@cornell.edu> <20111212174456.GB11542@mrvideo.vidiot.com> In-Reply-To: <20111212174456.GB11542@mrvideo.vidiot.com> 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: 2011-12/txt/msg00280.txt.bz2 On 12/12/2011 12:44 PM, Mike Brown wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:45:12AM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: >> There is no longer a default BAT file, and the Windows console is no longer >> the default terminal. The default terminal is now mintty. The current >> setup.exe creates desktop and start menu shortcuts to start it. This was >> announced in >> >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2011-11/msg00043.html > [...] > So, just what is a user supposed to think when reading the documentation. You're right, the documentation is out of date. I'll try to submit some patches within the next couple weeks if no one beats me to it. (Much of the documentation has already been updated in CVS.) By the way, I was wrong when I said there is no longer a default BAT file. setup.exe still creates /Cygwin.bat if it doesn't already exist. But setup.exe no longer creates a shortcut to start it. > When I did the install, I told it not to install the desktop shortcut, as I > already have one. There was no indication during the install to inform the > user that mintty is now the default startup, instead of cygwin.bat. > > At this point in time, I have no clue as to how to set up cygwin to use it, > just to see what it is like. The rxvt program has been working for me. There's nothing to set up. You just click on the start menu shortcut. You can then right click in the mintty window and select "Options" if you want to change some of the defaults. Ken -- 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