Prompt at bottom of terminal

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Aug 25 08:28:00 GMT 2014


On Aug 25 10:02, Michelle Pace wrote:
> Thanks Csaba for your suggestion, but it doesn't work for me :(
> 
> On 25 August 2014 09:24, Csaba Raduly <rcsaba@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Michelle Pace  wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> This would seem a somewhat arbitrary question but it is driving me
> >> crazy. The prompt on my terminal starts from the bottom of the
> >> terminal. Could anyone tell me how I get it to start from the top left
> >> hand corner like "normal"?
> >>
> >> The Target of the icon which I use to start cygwin with is:
> >> C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -
> >
> > Here's an untested suggestion: call reset from your login script (
> > ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile ).
> > When I call reset manually, I always end up with the prompt at the top.
> >
> > Csaba

You should try to find out the cause of the cursor starting at the
bottom in the first place.  It doesn't usually so something in your
profiles is doing that, apparently.


Corinna

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