The nonworking "Cygwin64 Terminal" shortcut is indeed a bug in CYGWIN_NT-10.0 version 2.4.1(0.293/5/3). Adding .exe to the pathname for mintty fixes it. Thanks to Brian Inglis for telling me how to do that. Doug McIlroy -- 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