1.7: mintty 5.5.1 refuses to take hippos seriously ;-(

[Lee D. Rothstein]

Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/12/22 Lee D. Rothstein:
>   
>>>> '--icon=c:\_0\hippo_xp.ico'  option now breaks mintty.
>>>>         
>>> Works for me, with the icon placed in the same location. This is on
>>> XP, and I tried it both in Cygwin 1.5 and 1.7.
>>>       
>> NB: c:\_0 is my root.
>>
>> I just looked at the ownership/mode of hippo_xp.ico and it was
>> lr:none and 700. I changed it to lr:root and 777, and the Windows
>> shortcut still doesn't work. While lr is part of root
>> (Administrators), I don't run the shortcut with elevated
>> privilege.
>>
>>     
>>> What system are you on?
>>>       
>> --
>> $ uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 GW2 1.7.0(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-04 17:08 i686 Cygwin
>>     
>
> Sorry, I can't reproduce this on Vista or 7 either. 
64b Vista!

> Hippo looking happy.
>
> Further to Chris's suggestion of trying Cygwin.ico, does it make a
> difference if you copy the hippo elsewhere?
No, it doesn't work there either!
> Also, did the shortcut
> work with mintty-0.5.4?
Yes.
> (0.5.5 uses a different Windows function to
> load the icon, but it's not immediately obvious why that might upset
> the hippo.)
>   
So, you're saying that not all Windows parties treat hippos equally. 
Tsk! ;-)

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