Recent change to terminal icon / mintty breaks taskbar pinning

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 11 10:32, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 09:53:29AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Not so.  This is related to the recent MinTTY changes[0].  I get the
> bugged behaviour on v2.2.1-0, but if I downgrade to v2.1.5-0, I get the
> behaviour Brian is describing as correct, with the command line
> arguments preserved when the program is pinned.
> 
> I'll guess this is, in particular, related to the "optional Windows
> taskbar integration" listed in the changelog in the announcement email.

Oh, ok, I didn't know that.  Thanks for clarifying.


Corinna

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