Eugeny
the default home dir of cygwin is incorrect
Version: 1.0.179 Platform: Windows x64 10.0.22000 Plugins: none Frontend: xterm
It thinks my home dir is /cygdrive/c/Users/tjun9
tjun9@thinkbook14p ~
$ cd ~
tjun9@thinkbook14p ~
$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/Users/tjun9
tjun9@thinkbook14p ~
$
but my home dir is /home/tjun9/
tjun9@thinkbook14p ~
$ cd /home/tjun9/
tjun9@thinkbook14p /home/tjun9
$
What is the value of the db_home key in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file?
What happens if you delete or comment out that line, or change it to /home/%U? (You may need to restart all Cygwin processes to see any changes to /etc/nsswitch.conf)
Coming at this from the other side: why does using your Windows home directory as your Cygwin home directory not work for you? Do you need to keep these directories separate? Why?
What is the value of the
db_homekey in your/etc/nsswitch.conffile?What happens if you delete or comment out that line, or change it to
/home/%U? (You may need to restart all Cygwin processes to see any changes to/etc/nsswitch.conf)Coming at this from the other side: why does using your Windows home directory as your Cygwin home directory not work for you? Do you need to keep these directories separate? Why?
If you are using MSYS2/Cywgin as a temporary workspace, or if you intend to use the same command line tools, such as vim/ssh/git/gdb, in both native windows and MSYS2/Cygwin, it is obviously necessary to separate the $HOME of the different environments in this case.
Another thing: I don't see anything in Tabby's documentation about the program automatically setting the $HOME variable, and I don't find anything about it on Tabby's settings page, so this should be considered an undocumented feature.