I found the following solution: Create a Windows shortcut with C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --rcfile ~/.foobarrc
where .foobarrc is a concatenation of /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile with the following line at the end: cd ~/foobar The above solution is a work-around of a more clean solution which could be: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --login --rcfile ~/.foobarrc where .foobarrc contains only the " cd ~/foobar" line. Unfortunately, when launching bash with --login, the --rcfile option is no longer active. Has somebody an idea on the way to launch a login bash which reads a specified .rc file? Best regards Jean Johner -----Message d'origine----- De : JOHNER Jean 066030 Envoyé : jeudi 29 juillet 2010 09:50 À : '[email protected]' Objet : Window shortcut to launch a Mintty login bash on a given directory Hello, Putting the following command line in a Windows shortcut opens a login bash in the /home/User_name directory (~): C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --login Now I would like to do the same in the /home/User_name/foobar directory. I tried: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e bash --login -c "cd foobar" with the result that the Mintty window vanishes. I also tried to add C:\cygwin\home\User_name\foobar in the "Start in" box of the windows shortcut. With no effect. Thank you for your help. Jean JOHNER -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
