How to configure the default shell in msys2/mintty?

Question

I updated msys2 recently and found mintty always shows 'Shells (bash)' dialog before it invokes.

It's little bit annoying to click the button every time, how can I suppress this dialog with fixing the default shell? Mintty version is mintty 2.7.7 (x86_64-pc-msys).

Corunna

Answer 1

Try installing the msys2-launcher package with pacman -S msys2-launcher. Then you should have three executables in the MSYS2 installation directory, and you should run the shell using those executables. You can then pin the shell to your Windows taskbar for future launching.

Forerunner

Thanks. After I installed msys2-launcher then I found mingw32.exe, mingw64.exe and msys2.exe in 'C:\msys64' folder. – Corunna

Answer 2

I tried installing msys2-launcher, but could not find the package.

Instead, I updated the Target field in my Windows shortcut to point to the msys2 bash directly:

C:\msys64\usr\bin\mintty.exe /usr/bin/bash

Hiro

Answer 3

Try this one: D:\msys64\usr\bin\bash.exe -c 'MSYSTEM=MSYS exec /bin/fish -l -i'

The 'MSYSTEM' variable could be MSYS, MINGW32, MING64. And the command can be integrated to terminal emulator like consolez, cmder. mintty.exe won't allow you do that since it's not console application.

Loan