From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: Pining Cygwin in Windows 7?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimgruxSS3nH0S53=HOBb5OLEVeONRhZzcK=brW0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D6A9BA6.2020403@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Charles Wilson <> wrote:
>
> Try installing mintty, then launching
> C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -
> (e.g. with the argument '-') as your "pin". (I don't know much about W7,
> but at least you'd be starting an executable instead of a batch file).
>
> --
> Chuck
You don't need to create any special shortcut to launch it.
Launching mintty from the shortcut that is added when you install it
and then pinning the resultant box to the task bar works for me on
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1.
-Jason
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-27 23:52 UTC|newest]
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2011-02-27 23:52 Brenden Towey
2011-02-28 3:24 ` Charles Wilson
2011-02-28 4:48 ` DePriest, Jason R. [this message]
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