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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 directory (where WSL is also installed)
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* an empty “home directory” to enable storage of a mintty config file
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* a Desktop Shortcut and a Start Menu Shortcut to start WSL with a login bash in the user’s WSL home directory
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* context menu entries for Windows Explorer to start WSL with a bash in the respective directory
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An uninstaller is not provided.
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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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