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Discussion on: Make your terminal look Swag with MSYS2 and ZSH

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Muhammad Ridwan Hakim

I prefer mintty. Install zsh, oh-my-zsh, and powerlevel10k in msys2. Just set "LOGINSHELL=zsh" in msys2_shell.cmd file. You can also append Windows paths (environment) to MSYS2 environment.
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Mintty is the default emulator for MSYS. It comes bundled with the installer and is installed along with MSYS base system. Of course it's a great choice!

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yury burkouski • Edited

good catch, but conemu/wezterm is better ;) but yeah, the correct way to start is

C:\msys64\msys2_shell.cmd -defterm -here -no-start -ucrt64

Instead of author’s "sh -login" and we need to modify msys2_shell.cmd to use zsh