last update is weird

[Andy Koppe]

> 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

Andy

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