How to set mintty.exe as the default terminal on Windows?

Question

I am trying to set the https://github.com/mintty/mintty terminal installed by Cygwin as the default Visual Studio Code terminal with:

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "D:\\Cygwin\\bin\\mintty.exe",

But it opens the Mintty.exe terminal on a new window, instead of show it as an embedded console.

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Answer 1

There are two terminal settings, you may want set them like this:

"terminal.external.windowsExec": "D:\\cygwin64\\bin\\mintty.exe",
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "D:\\cygwin64\\bin\\bash.exe",

Answer 2

You should use "D:\\Cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe" instead of mintty

cheers.