Cygwin Tools

Overview

A small collection of scripts for using Cygwin. Mainly these are scripts for starting the terminal and shell.

These scripts hard-code the C:\cygwin directory as the directory where Cygwin is installed and where the scripts themselves are placed.

First, copy the src/ files to the C:\cygwin\ directory.

Install the font Bitstream Vera Sans Mono; these are my favorite fixed-width fonts.

There are a number of registry keys to import, found in the setup directory.

To set up the cyg runner so that you can start Cygwin (bash in rxvt) by going to Start > Run and entering cyg, import (open) cygrunner.reg.

To set up the Windows Explorer context menu item for starting Cygwin (bash in rxvt) in the selected folder, import cyghere.reg.

To set up the Windows Explorer context menu item for starting cmd in the selected folder, import cmdhere.reg.

Cygwin Tools is released under the GNU GPL3.