Adding Transparency to cygwin
Recently I have been using cygwin regularly, the best thing about it is that it provides many useful tools such as grep in windows. In Linux you can customize the terminal to look just the way you want it for instance you can add transparency, etc. You can apply similar look and feel changes such as transparency to cygwin using a small tool called mintty.
To install minty:
- Run the setup.exe file available on cygwin website.
- when you reach the package selection page search for mintty mark it to be installed.
To apply mintty to the cygwin terminal every time it starts you would need to edit the .bat file you use to run cgwin. Edit the file and replace the start line with the following:
start mintty bash --login -i
After installing mintty you can go through the options and customize it the way you prefer.
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Installing the mintty package should automatically add a mintty entry that invokes a login shell to the start menu’s Cygwin folder, so editing Cygwin.bat isn’t necessary.
Thanks for the tip Andy. I see why I had to do it… It was probably because when the setup was done I unchecked the options to add the .bat to the Desktop and start menu…..