Mintty as a terminal for Bash on Ubuntu on Windows / WSL.

Overview

Run the installer to install

• wsltty package components (see below) in the user’s application directory (where WSL is also installed)
• an empty wsltty “home directory” to enable storage of a mintty config file
• a Desktop Shortcut and a Start Menu Shortcut to start WSL with a login bash in the Windows user profile directory; to start in the Linux home directory instead, add a cd command to your Linux $HOME/.profile script
• context menu entries for Windows Explorer to start WSL with a bash in the respective directory
• a script wsl.bat to invoke wsltty manually; copy the script from %LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty to %SYSTEMROOT%\System32 if desired
• an uninstall script that can be invoked manually to remove shortcuts and context menu entries

Components

For mintty, see the Mintty homepage.

It is based on Cygwin and includes its runtime library (sources).

For interacting with WSL, it uses wslbridge.