Recent change to terminal icon / mintty breaks taskbar pinning

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 11 06:53, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Brian Mathis!
> 
> > I recently updated to the latest set of cygwin packages, and something
> > has broken the terminal icon when pinned to the start menu.  When
> > starting from the Start menu "Cygwin Terminal" icon, mintty comes up
> > normally, loads my user profile, and the cwd is set to ~.
> 
> > However, if I right-click the icon on the taskbar and select "Pin to
> > taskbar", close the existing terminal, then open by clicking on the
> > pinned taskbar icon, the terminal starts but it does not load the
> > profile, the cwd is /usr/bin, and no commands can be found (e.g. ls:
> > command not found).  I have tracked this down to the pinned icon
> > missing the arguments "-i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -".
> 
> > I'm sure this worked prior to the update, so something seems to have
> > changed.  I update fairly often, so this is something recent within
> > the past month or so.  I'm on Windows 8.1 x64 using Cygwin 32bit.
> 
> I've experienced this same issue across a wide range of applications,
> including AD management tools.
> 
> I have a feeling this is unrelated to Cygwin.

Yeah, pinning is only controlled by Windows itself (shell32
functionality, probably).  It's not under the control of the
application the shortcut points to.


Corinna

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