Hooray! BIG thank you goes to authors of mintty for Windows. The result target command should look like: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe Right click on launcher icon and remove icon parameters from Target. If the installer downloads but does not start, check below.
Some computers were complaining that /Cygwin-Terminal.ico was not found and I was not able to launch terminal. After searching for an alternative, I found BitVise Tunnelier as probably the best. (Yes, I know about other terminals like rxvt or X-based stuff, but it required always some extra steps).
It works fantastic! After so many yeaars it is now possible to use full power of Windows and Linux together in one bundle. It will launch mintty process and you can resize window without problem. You can use cmd /c start to start the windows console from mintty if necessary. gdb may not function properly under mintty with non- cygwin applications. Run gdb under the windows console (cmd) instead. Installer will create link to this app with name Cygwin Terminal. Allow Cygwin installation to finish, then start from the installed shortcut a Cygwin Terminal, or Cygwin64 Terminal. Good news! Great news! There is new terminal window in Cygwin 1.7.x. The other option would be to mix Cygwin with PowerShell, but then many things are not working at all. In default installation you can resize just in one direction. When you work on Mac or Linux you can resize terminal window as you need. The only BIG drawback of Cygwin for Windows was terminal window. This saves a lot of time when you’re domain admin and you need to maintain many computers. rhosts file not recognized by rlogin anymore after updating to Cygwin 1.7. Features include: Xterm-compatible terminal emulation.
In MSYS, mintty can be installed with mingw-get install msys-mintty. The Cygwin installer creates a shortcut for mintty in the Windows start menu. You can create shell script to access windows share via //computer/share_name. Does the Cygwin Setup program accept command-line arguments. It can be downloaded from here or it can be installed through Cygwin's setup.exe program, where it can be found in the Shells category. 2011: new version of Mintty (see discussion).Į.g. 2012: Mintty/Cygwin Termina has also support for transparency.
See 'rebaseall -help'.Ĭan you please provide a link to the download page of the latest Mintty that I should try? I end up on Google Code but those versions are outdated as far as I can tell.Update 4.11. I tried adding -d to the Mintty command ends up with a window with black text on a red background saying Failed to fork child process: Resource temporarily unavailable.
I will try your update to see if it makes any difference and let you know. I tried updating Mintty but it yesterday seemed that I was already running the latest version that is available for download. It might be therefor possible that this is somehow a thing where Mintty is unable to fork off Launchy, therefor declaring defeat and showing a notification.
However, no other program started showing problematic behaviour with Launchy after updating Win10 to build 10586, only Mintty. It now seems that the problem lies in using Launchy to start Cygwin, because that's the only way I am getting this detaching error. I am however, using Launchy to be able to quickly start stuff by hitting alt-space, typing a few letters, and hitting enter. Setup a WSL session for the given distribution (like -WSL) but do not. It turns out, that in both situations everything is working just fine, as long as I just launch via the start menu or directly via the shortcut. Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user interface and. C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -Īt this point I did some new discoveries.