On 29 July 2010 08:49, Andy Koppe wrote: >> I also tried to add >> >> C:\cygwin\home\User_name\foobar >> >> in the "Start in" box of the windows shortcut. With no effect.
> That was the right idea. The reason it didn't work is that > /etc/profile changes back to your home directory, unless the variable > CHERE_INVOKING (used by the 'chere' package) is set. > Hence you could get it to work by changing the shortcut target to this: > C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe /bin/env CHERE_INVOKING=1 /bin/bash --login Thank you Andy, The last problem is that the window title, for the "My documents/foobar" directory becomes: /cygdrive/d/Documents and settings/User_name/My documents/foobar which iconifies to "/cygdrive/d/Docu...", the latter indication being the same for all directories. I tried: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -t foobar -e /bin/env CHERE_INVOKING=1 /bin/bash --login to get the "foobar" window title, but at the end the complete above title comes back again. Best regards. Jean Johner PS: same problem when installing chere with chere -ia -s bash -t mintty -- 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
