How to set mintty.exe as the default terminal on Windows?

Question

I am trying to set the https://github.com/mintty/mintty terminal installed by Cygwin as the default Visual Studio Code terminal with:

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "D:\\Cygwin\\bin\\mintty.exe",

But it opens the Mintty.exe terminal on a new window, instead of show it as an embedded console.

Related thread I found about it:

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 14 '17 at 06:11

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You should use "D:\\Cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe" instead of mintty

cheers.

answered Sep 14 '17 at 06:11

Rox

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 24 '18 at 02:51

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There are two terminal settings, you may want set them like this:

"terminal.external.windowsExec": "D:\\cygwin64\\bin\\mintty.exe",
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "D:\\cygwin64\\bin\\bash.exe",

edited Jan 24 '18 at 02:51

Stephen Rauch

answered Jan 24 '18 at 02:24

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