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Mintty as a terminal for Bash on Ubuntu on Windows / WSL
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Extraneous % in shortcuts #325

Closed rasa closed 1 year ago

rasa commented 1 year ago

After installing https://github.com/mintty/wsltty/releases/download/3.6.1.2/wsltty-3.6.1.2-x86_64-install-quiet.exe via winget:

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mintty commented 1 year ago

The % sign is there explicitly and on purpose to indicate that this version of the shortcut starts the terminal in the Windows home directory (%USERPROFILE%), as opposed to the other set of shortcuts which start in the WSL home directory. The "%" variants should actually only be installed in the Start Menu subfolder WSLtty, to be checked. The "%" refers to the naming scheme of Windows environment variables, maybe not the best choice...