ZSH with mintty on latest cygwin?

Question

Does anyone know how to set mintty to use zsh on the newest cygwin install?

score 17 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 03 '12 at 00:23

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Just edit your /etc/passwd and replace /bin/bash with /bin/zsh.

answered Mar 03 '12 at 00:23

jjlin

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score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '15 at 03:29

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If your shortcut is using mintty.exe then change it to:

C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico /bin/zsh --login

answered Jun 22 '15 at 03:29

David C. Bishop

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 14 '17 at 11:04

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Just to complement David C Bishop's answer, now more likely to be using cygwin64. (Create a Windows desktop shortcut, and paste following in as the 'location')

C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico /bin/zsh --login

answered Mar 14 '17 at 11:04

zzapper

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ZSH with mintty on latest cygwin?

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