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 “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 user’s WSL home directory
• context menu entries for Windows Explorer to start WSL with a bash in the respective directory

An uninstaller is not provided.

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.