title: How to set mintty.exe as the default terminal on Windows?
body: <p>I am trying to set the <a href="https://github.com/mintty/mintty" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/mintty/mintty</a> terminal installed by <code>Cygwin</code> as the default Visual Studio Code terminal with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "D:\\Cygwin\\bin\\mintty.exe",
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  <p>But it opens the <code>Mintty.exe</code> terminal on a new window, instead of show it as an embedded console.</p>
  
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  <p>Related thread I found about it:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40487445/how-to-change-the-integrated-terminal-in-visual-studio-code-or-vscode">How to change the integrated terminal in visual studio code or VSCode</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44107919/how-to-integrate-babun-shell-in-vs-code">How to Integrate babun shell in VS code</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/24588" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Is it possible to configure Babun/ZSH for the integrated terminal on Windows?</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10373" rel="nofollow noreferrer">How to integrate terminal whth babun on windows?</a></li>
  </ol>