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Mintty as a terminal for Bash on Ubuntu on Windows / WSL.
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### Overview ###
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2016-09-16 11:50:22 +01:00
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Run the [installer](https://github.com/mintty/wsltty/releases) to install
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* wsltty package components (see below) in the user’s application folder (where WSL is also installed)
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2016-09-18 11:06:23 +01:00
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* an empty wsltty “home directory” to enable storage of a mintty config file
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* Start Menu and Desktop shortcuts to start a WSL bash (with some variations, see below)
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* optional context menu entries for Windows Explorer to start a WSL bash in the respective folder, installable from the Start Menu subfolder
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* `wsl*.bat` scripts to invoke wsltty manually (with some variations and invocation options, see below)
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* an uninstall script that can be invoked manually to remove shortcuts and context menu entries
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### Configuration ###
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#### Command line scripts wsl*.bat ####
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WSLtty installs the following scripts in its application folder `%LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty`:
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* `wsl.bat` to start a WSL bash in the current folder/directory
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* `wsl~.bat` to start a WSL bash in the WSL user home
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* `wsl-l.bat` to start a WSL login bash
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To enable invocation of these scripts from WIN+R or from cmd.exe,
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copy them from `%LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty` into `%SYSTEMROOT%\System32`,
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renaming them as desired.
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(The package does not do this to avoid trouble with missing admin privileges.)
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#### Start Menu and Desktop shortcuts ####
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The Start Menu subfolder WSLtty offers three shortcuts:
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* `WSL Bash % in Mintty` to start a WSL bash in the Windows %USERPROFILE% home
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* `WSL Bash ~ in Mintty` to start a WSL bash in the WSL user home
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* `WSL Bash -l in Mintty` to start a WSL login bash
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To ensure a login bash to start in your Linux home directory,
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add a `cd` command to your `$HOME/.profile` on Linux side.
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2016-10-11 17:05:11 +01:00
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#### Mintty settings ####
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Mintty can maintain its configuration file in various locations,
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with the following precedence:
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* file given with mintty option `-c`
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* `%LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\home\%USERNAME%\.minttyrc`
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* `%LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\home\%USERNAME%\.config\mintty\config`
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* `%APPDATA%\mintty\config`
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* `%LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\etc\minttyrc`
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Note that the `%APPDATA%\mintty\config` option provides the possibility
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to maintain common mintty settings for various installations (like
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wsltty, Cygwin, MinGW/msys, Git for Windows, MinEd for Windows).
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### Components ###
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For mintty, see the [Mintty homepage](http://mintty.github.io/).
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It is based on [Cygwin](http://cygwin.com)
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and includes its runtime library ([sources](http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cygwin/x86/release/cygwin)).
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For interacting with WSL, it uses [wslbridge](https://github.com/rprichard/wslbridge).
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