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windowsbashcygwinmintty
Jan
Jan

Reputation: 410

Cygwin terminal window empty

I've just installed cygwin (64bit) terminal on Windows 7 64. When I open cygwin terminal from Start menu, I can only see empty terminal window with blinking cursor. I can issue commands and see output, but prompt is missing (at least $ should be there, right?)

Any ideas how to fix it? It is fresh installation of cygwin on fresh Windows 7 64bit Enterprise.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3249

Answers (2)

Lex Nguyen
Lex Nguyen

Reputation: 401

First, I'm using window64 too, but it can work with cygwin32, please try with cygwin 32

If not, please try install cygwin again from another miror

Upvotes: 0

Miserable Variable
Miserable Variable

Reputation: 28752

Start with issuing the command

echo xyz

To find out if you are actually at a blank command prompt. If that responds with the output of xyz then check your prompt with 

echo $PS1

And then set it 

export PS1='\h \w> '

This should give you a prompt. If the first step itself does not give you a prompt you have other problems.

Another option is to start the bash shell from windows command prompt:

 c:>c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login

Assuming you have installed cygwin in c:\cygwin

Upvotes: 1

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