Cygwin Setup Terminals

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• Cygwin Installation and Configuration - Setup Terminals

TODO

Needs review for Cygwin 2.5.2 and Windows 10.

Overview

All terminal scripts for a default cygwin installation should be placed in /home/<username>/bin. If the "bin" directory does not exist, create it.

Relevance

For Cygwin 2.3.1 I did not find rxvt so everything below might be obsolete.

Default rxvt Terminal

1. Create /home/ovidiu/bin/cygwin-rxvt.bat

@echo off

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin

start rxvt -sr -sl 10000 -geometry 120x60 -fg gray -bg black -fn "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-0-0-10-10-m-0-iso8859-2" -e /bin/bash --login -i

2. Make it executable

cd ~/bin
chmod a+x cygwin-rxvt.bat

3. Copy and paste the existing desktop Cygwin Terminal icon, place the copy on the desktop.

4. Edit the copy of the icon as follows:

• General tab - Name: cygwin
• Shortcut tab - Target: C:\cygwin\home\ovidiu\bin\cygwin-rxvt.bat
• Shortcut tab - Start in: C:\cygwin\home\ovidiu

5. Drag the icon to quick-launch and then delete the icon from the desktop.

6. Optional - if you don't like the icon, copy the .ico from the current machine into C:\cygwin\home\ovidiu\bin and change the icon on the shortcut.

Large Fonts rxvt Terminal

1. Create /home/ovidiu/bin/cygwin-rxvt-large-fonts.bat

@echo off

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin

start rxvt -sr -sl 10000 -geometry 120x60 -fg black -bg white -fn -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -e /bin/bash --login -i

2. Make it executable:

cd ~/bin
chmod a+x cygwin-rxvt-large-fonts.bat

3. Copy and paste the existing desktop Cygwin Terminal icon, place the copy on the desktop.

4. Edit the copy of the icon as follows:

• General tab - Name: cygwin (winterm)
• Shortcut tab - Target: C:\cygwin\home\ovidiu\bin\cygwin-rxvt-large-fonts.bat
• Shortcut tab - Start in: C:\cygwin\home\ovidiu

5. Drag the icon to quick-launch and then delete the icon from the desktop.

6. Optional - if you don't like the icon, copy the .ico from the current machine into C:\cygwin\home\ovidiu\bin and change the icon on the shortcut.

Windows Native Terminal

1. Create /home/ovidiu/bin/cygwin-winterm.bat

@echo off

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin

bash --login -i

2. Make it executable:

cd ~/bin
chmod a+x cygwin-winterm.bat

3. Copy and paste the existing desktop Cygwin Terminal icon, place the copy on the desktop.

4. Edit the copy of the icon as follows:

• General tab - Name: cygwin (large fonts)
• Shortcut tab - Target: C:\cygwin\home\ovidiu\bin\cygwin-winterm.bat
• Shortcut tab - Start in: C:\cygwin\home\ovidiu

5. Drag the icon to quick-launch and then delete the icon from the desktop.

6. Optional - if you don't like the icon, copy the .ico from the current machine into C:\cygwin\home\ovidiu\bin and change the icon on the shortcut.

mintty Configuration

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