same thing.. it glimpses and closes on my face. On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:56 AM, pichi032 . <perronium@gmail.com> wrote: > I just read about cygwin and decided to give it a go.. Installed the > 64-bit version on Windows 8.1 with default settings but as soon as I > click the Desktop Icon it opens a shell but it immediately closes.. > like a glimpse .. I believe that should be Mintty. The path on the > shortcut is the following : >> D:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -l /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - >> any ideas on how to fix this odd issue ? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple