X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:01:36 +0200 From: "Vincent R." To: Andy Koppe Cc: Subject: Re: last update is weird In-Reply-To: <416096c60906090520o36aed84ve617be136c251fb5@mail.gmail.com> References: <55a03d4b2e90a978986035cb324b82b9@mail.smartmobili.com> <416096c60906090520o36aed84ve617be136c251fb5@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: X-Sender: forumer@smartmobili.com User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:20:12 +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >> I have started cygwin-1.7 setup to update to latest cygwin dll and now >> when >> I start mintty, >> seems are very weird. >> My terminal looks like a mix between a windows terminal and mintty, for >> instance I have the following >> text in black and white : >> >> Microsoft Windows XP [version 5.1.2600] >> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. >> >> C:\cygwin-1.7\bin> >> >> and the window title is -cmd while I think it used to be ~. Colors have >> disappeared. > > Any chance you've got a Windows environment variable called SHELL > that's set to cmd.exe? Try this to check: echo %SHELL% > > MinTTY 0.4 looks in that variable for a command to execute, like rxvt > and xterm do. > > To override it, change your shortcut to this: > > Target : C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\mintty.exe /bin/bash -l > Thanks I had the $SHELL set to cmd.exe. Now it works fine. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/