sascha/wsltty
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/mintty/wsltty.git synced 2025-01-18 20:10:58 +00:00
Code Issues Releases Wiki Activity
wsltty/README.md
Thomas Wolff b735929c5c Describe locations of mintty settings file (#9).
2016-10-11 18:05:11 +02:00

2.6 KiB
Raw Blame History

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

Configuration

Command line scripts wsl.bat and wsl~.bat

  • To enable invocation of this script from WIN+R or from cmd.exe, copy it from %LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty into %SYSTEMROOT%\System32. (The package does not do this to avoid trouble with missing admin privileges.)
  • To start the terminal in the current directory when calling the script from the command line, modify it (or a copy for this purpose) and remove the final -l parameter.
  • To enforce starting in your Linux home directory, do either of:
    • On Linux side, add a cd command to your $HOME/.profile.
    • Use wsl~.bat instead of wsl.bat (or rename it as desired).

Desktop shortcut and Start menu shortcut

To enforce starting in your Linux home directory, do either of:

  • On Linux side, add a cd command to your $HOME/.profile.
  • Use the shortcut Bash ~ on UoW in Mintty instead.

Mintty settings

Mintty can maintain its configuration file in various locations, with the following precedence:

  • file given with mintty option -c
  • %LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\home\%USERNAME%\.minttyrc
  • %LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\home\%USERNAME%\.config\mintty\config
  • %APPDATA%\mintty\config
  • %LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\etc\minttyrc

Note that the %APPDATA%\mintty\config option provides the possibility to maintain common mintty settings for various installations (like wsltty, Cygwin, MinGW/msys, Git for Windows).

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.